Sounds like you work for a crappy company. An employer can ask you to work as long as they feel, but they are required to increase your pay if you work more than 40 a week. You can deny the overtime since it was not what you had signed up for, but don t expect your manager to do you any favors afterwards.You are allowed one break a day, and that is lunch. Clearly bathroom privileges don t apply, take them as needed. If you need to get up and walk around or smoke a cigarette for 5 minutes, you will have to clear it with you manager.Lastly, if you are using company vacation time or paid time off, you have to clear the dates with your manager ahead of time. If you went ahead and bought tickets and then told him a few days before you left, that could be a problem. If you give your employer 2 weeks of notice before vacation leave, they shouldn t deny you unless everyone else in your office decided to request the same days off.
With most businesses all this is supposed to be laid out when you re hired or during your interview for the job (if there was an interview).Where overtime is concerned, unless you were advised in the beginning that there would be mandatory overtime, you re not required to do it, but you can be fired if your employer decides you re not enough of a team player because of this.In most states, mandatory breaks are at the discretion of the employer unless you re a member of a union and then your breaks are dictated by the contract the union has with the employer.With regard to vacation...that was your mistake. You never book travel before requesting vacation time from your employer. You can t just arbitrarily run off on vacation without giving your employer adequate notice, and depending on what the business is involved in, he can deny vacation if he feels your presence will be needed, except of course, again, you re a member of a union.
