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Is it against the law for an employer to continuously add new job duties after hiring an employee w/o consent?

I work at a restaurant as a food expediter. Each new shift I work, it seems that the management staff has added new job duties for me to do outside of my expediter duties; such as buttering burger buns, doing "line checks" (a line check is when each food item served on the restaurant's menu is checked before the shift starts to gurantee a shift is ran efficiently, line checks are supossed to be conducted by cooks) I know that under the labor laws of the U.S. government, an employer must specify on paper an employee's job duties and if after the hiring process, these job duties change or are extended, then the employee must be consulted and re-issued a revised "job duties" pamphlet. Under what LABOR LAW does this fall under?, I would like to meet with my boss and discuss this issue, but I want to be backed by facts and not just my personal opinion. If State and Federal laws differ slightly, what laws in Georgia will back my claim?

Public Comments

1. Sounds like it verges on Discrimination for some reason to me.
2. Actually, there is no such law. Your job is whatever your employer tells you it is...as long as the changes are reasonable. Now, if your employer suddenly told you that your job how included digging up the concrete driveway and you refuse, then you would have a case because it's not customary to the job. US labor law considers this sort of situation an internal compensation matter between the employee and employer, and there is nothing that gives you any specific protection in this case. The only thing that could be done is to file a grievance with a union, but I'm guessing you aren't in a union.
3. so you think your boss should ask your permission to make sure it's okay with you... before telling you to do something?
4. Most states follow the "at will" employment doctrine. It means that they can hire and fire anyone for any reason, so long as the reason is not based on you being a member of a protected class (race, religion etc...). It also means that you can quit for any reason. Barring a contract (or perhaps a collective bargaining agreement) that might state otherwise, I believe the employer is free to do as it pleases. People don't like to hear that, but I'm sorry to say it is the case.