Probably 2 hours

I’m sorry I can’t give company name. I don’t participate in cancel culture and if I did they would lose business which would hurt all the employees. At least this unemployment thing sucks but they pay decent hourly and leave the drivers alone 🤷🏻‍♀️. I wouldn’t want to see other families go without pay cuz I did that. They will kill the company without my help.

Thank you! They use to offer unemployment in April when the kids didn’t own the business the parents did. Oil season dies down in April/May (past 2 years it slowed down in March) so they would offer voluntary lay off cuz they didn’t have full 40 hours for all drivers. Then about the last 2 years they stopped allowing lay offs saying it was to much paper work. So now the drivers just deal with some weeks have 40 hours and other weeks have 28 hours. They refuse to lay off. You can’t file a claim just for lost hours until they lay you off. Employees have been told if the owners ever hear the word “union/unemployment” your immediately terminated.

Yes we are looking. Sad we are even looking to move to a state with lower cost of living just so we can live a little more comfortably. Ma is becoming a state that you just can’t make it anymore. We make usually $80000 a year and live pay check to pay check. We rent hoping and praying it doesn’t go up and we are on the street. There is no middle class anymore and you can’t survive in Ma anymore. Anyone know a good state for truckers with low cost of living but good paying transportation jobs?

People are so disgusting using loop holes. This is peoples lives they are messing with. I wish someone out there in our government actually cared about the people of this country who are struggling everyday to just live while CEOS and company owners are using loop holes and other nonsense to divide the wealth and keep people as underpaid barely scraping by. My heart hurts for all the others not making it. We are barely getting by but at least we can get by. I think of all the kids going hungry or no where to live cuz of greed.

Thank you for taking the time to help. Yes he does have a cdl. I’ll have him start looking more at trucking jobs.

Yes unfortunately we are looking. He had been with the company 8 years and had loyalty that why we have hung on. Unfortunately oil season is almost closing so he won’t be able to find a new one till the fall. Unfortunately until he finds a job making over $30 to support us then we have to put up with the environment. I would love for him to tell them to go screw cuz he is an awesome employee and anyone would be lucky to have him. But we have kids that need to eat so something is better then nothing. I know you may see jobs offering $25 for oil but it’s usually temp work and $25 is after mandatory overtime. You see a lot in the trucking business they will put pay up to $40+. When you inquire about these jobs that pay is “if” there is overtime and “if” it’s a state paid job or regular job. Employers are sneaky about wording on pay

The problem is they refuse to lay off when there is no work. This has only been a new “rule” when the son took over. Before that every March the guys would be asked who wanted the lay off since oil season was closing. Now since the wife doesn’t want to do paper work she refuses to allow unemployment. I guess we are just screwed like all the other employees trying to just live while owners and CEO’s keep getting rich. I can’t wait for these two idiots to run a business that been around for 4 generations and over 110 year into the ground because of personal greed.

He was hired for 40 hours a week for full time, shouldn’t if the hours drop employees get to file? It’s so confusing. I wish the boss would of text everyone why they can’t use unemployment then we would have proof.

It sucks! Why can’t owners not be human. They are literally playing with people lives. It’s so hard right now and I only see it getting worse. I want him to find a new job so bad but how do you know your new boss won’t be even more evil.

Yup I thought so. The office we switched to is a family practice and they don’t do that.

Yes I understand this. I’m telling you what my office told me and my son. No access to any information in his chart except billing. I can’t have access to labs or anything in his chart except for me to pay his bills. So in this instance my office is telling me my son makes his own medical decisions. That is exactly what I was told so perhaps their receptionist is giving the wrong information. Anyways we switched to a family practice and don’t need to deal with that issue since they don’t do that.

Do your children go to a pediatrician or a family practice? Only my pediatrician office has this policy. I’m wondering if it’s just pediatrician that are doing this.

My pediatrician office said my son can’t give permission at all to access his records. The only thing I can see is billing. They said my son wasn’t allowed to give his permission for me to access his care. I just don’t think 12 year old is old enough to make all medical decisions.

My pediatrician office once my child turns 13 won’t allow my husband or I access to anything in his chart as of 13, even with his permission. He must have a separate email account and I’m only allowed to see billing information. I’m sorry I don’t feel my 13 year old should be 100% in charge of his health care. I never saw that law in Ma as I looked at a more federal level for laws. It’s amazing to me how many rights parents are losing to their kids more and more. As for people saying I have no right to my under age child’s medical records…f@&k you.. I’m responsible for my child legally and financially. If they have a substance abuse problem who will be paying and taking care of them…me…if they end up as a teen parent at 14 who is responsible for them…me….so yeah I have a right to know what my kids are up to. I will be checking that link you gave me thanks!

I heard about this happening at my pediatrician office. We have been patients there for 27 years and this is a new “policy” not law as I was told by the receptionist. I called my own family dr office and they don’t do that there. You have access to your children till they are 18. There is no law stating children at 13 make their own medical decisions or parents have no access to their children’s health records at 13. My pediatrician office does it because they are part of a bigger hospital that has this policy.

We had dispensary open yesterday in central ma. 3 of them were open 9-1 and 3-10.