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What laws, is any, does this break? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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American here. I have a job where they have a perk where you submit receipts through their app or website and you earn points you can cash out at some point if you shop with clients of our company. Sounds like a nice little promotional incentive, right?

Well, they say it’s optional but it’s not. You can apparently get in trouble for not using this and we’ve been pulled aside about it and warned we must use this stupid thing.

The idea is the app you install must be given permission to see your location at all times. It then checks the area to ensure you are favoring clients of our company as opposed to our competitors when you shop. When you shop at one of our clients, you must report your receipt to the company showing everything you bought while there. Even if you are buying gas, you need to report it.

I don’t participate in this invasion of privacy. I actually want to put less of my data out there in general, not more. I don’t even have a grocery store discount card. We were told in a meeting this week that promotions in this company are influenced by how much/if you participate in the program. We were told people have been denied promotions because they did not participate in this program.

If I’m off the clock they don’t get to decide what I do. They can fuck themselves. And I am surely not giving them a little report of what I buy. But saying we are ineligible for career advancement within the company unless we buy groceries, gas, etc from preferred vendors seems sketchy. Is this legal?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Unfortunately, company scrip is legal as long as they’re still paying at least minimum wage in USD. Like they can pay you $7.25 per hour (federal minimum wage, assuming your state doesn’t have a higher minimum wage) plus $92.25 per hour in company scrip. And they could claim that your wage is $100 per hour, because of the company scrip. It’s scummy, but technically legal.

Because at the time, minimum wage was actually intended to cover the cost of living (housing, utilities, food, and a single car) for a family of three. So as long as they were at least paying the minimum wage to cover your basic essentials, the scrip was legal. Nowadays, minimum wage has deflated to the point that it doesn’t even support one person. So the spirit of the FLSA’s company scrip section hasn’t been honored, as minimum wage has deflated.