My jurisdiction is: Texas
I was recently asked by my boss to turn on company email forwarding on my personal cell phone. This is a cell phone that I bought using a voice and data plan that I pay for.
I am a salaried employee and there is nothing in my contract that says that I must have company email pushed to my cell phone.
My boss and HR explained to me that I need to be checking my email constantly, regardless of whether I am sick or it's the weekend or a holiday. They said it was part of working for a "start-up." This is a company with 400 employees and offices in the US, UK, Paris, and Singapore, which I'm pretty sure takes them out of the start-up category.
Regardless, I'm paying for a personal data plan so I can be constantly barraged with work email, which is murdering my battery life. Is this legal?
I was recently asked by my boss to turn on company email forwarding on my personal cell phone. This is a cell phone that I bought using a voice and data plan that I pay for.
I am a salaried employee and there is nothing in my contract that says that I must have company email pushed to my cell phone.
My boss and HR explained to me that I need to be checking my email constantly, regardless of whether I am sick or it's the weekend or a holiday. They said it was part of working for a "start-up." This is a company with 400 employees and offices in the US, UK, Paris, and Singapore, which I'm pretty sure takes them out of the start-up category.
Regardless, I'm paying for a personal data plan so I can be constantly barraged with work email, which is murdering my battery life. Is this legal?
