we both work at mcdonalds and have just recently gotten married. we are both good workers and we work well with eacthother. now all of a sudden our employer wants one of us to transfer to a new location. she says that we will see eachother too much and that wont be good for our marriage. thats not true because i am also a full time student and we rarely have the same shifts anyway. the only time we see eachother is at night. our personal lives do not effect our work, no one even knew we were even together. we have worked together at other jobs before and we have always got along great, we have never had a complaint. our current employer even says we have done nothing wrong. the other location is alot farther away from our apartment, we have to walk everywhere and walking nearly 23 blocks at 2am is not safe at all, plus winter is coming. i found it odd that my employer and i had just worked out my availability on the weekends to where we could both agree and then an hour later she calls me back telling me about the new location change. can she do this? we were not married at the time of employment and we got married about a week ago. my employer has known about this for two weeks and now out of the blue its an issue.
Doesn t McDonald s have a thing where you can write to the corporation if you don t like something going on in your store? Perhaps try that. I worked at McDonald s while I was in college, too. And we had a lot of couples and people related to each other who worked their. The only thing I can say is check the papers you signed when you started there and ask to see their policy handbook. If it s not written somewhere I don t think they can just make you move. Tell your employer that the new location is just too far away.
You will want to read your employment agreement, but typically that is common practice.
