Answer, of course, being that your employer can't force you to stay but can fire you cheerfully for evacuating or anything else.
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This morning, r/legaladvice is full of underpaid FL employees wondering if they have any right to evacuate without getting fired.
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See also: issues around hospital employees who are required to stay onsite 24/7 during storm but told they'll only be paid for 12hrs/7.
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Usually illegal but if full sleeping quarters provided some states have loopholes.
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Everyone should read r/legaladvice, it's a great bird's eye look at how average people encounter the indifferent cruelty of the nation.
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It's also a lot of men asking if they can get their gf to sign "abortion contracts" to waive child support (no), but that's another story.
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What's scary is if you spend enough time reading it you can get snarky, like "lol this idiot thinks he can't get fired for NO REASON."
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"HAH what a fool, he doesn't live in Colorado where there are some protections against being fired for legal activity while off the clock."
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And where you DO have legal protection against getting fired for evacuating, they'll just fire you the next time you drop a tray of drinks.
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It's easier to make a solid retaliation case than you might think, but it's a rare cocktail waitress who has the bandwidth to fight it out.
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ANYWAY things are terrible and you have no rights.
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UNIONIZE!!! THEN THERE IS NO QUESTION!!!!
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Yeah, I was in Florida when the last hurricane hit and I was in the union. We were told if we wanted to leave early, we had to use PTO--
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--and if we didn't have PTO and left we'd still get the "occurrence" for lost time. I stubbornly stayed at work until--
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--they finally let people go home early. My supervisors were pissed but I told them this was THEIR system.
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All my union experience was while in Fl, and it's basically paying a fee to not be the first to get laid off
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And this was two different unions at two different major companies. Unions aren't bad but they aren't great either.
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My cousin runs a Lowes and corporate wouldn't let him close the store w/ an ice storm on the way bc Home Depot was going to be open.
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He walked across the street to Home Depot to ask if they were closing. "Not if you're gonna be open." Handshake & everyone got to go home.
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Hearing Home Depot & Lowes employees colluding together to undermine their corporate overlords is strangely heartwarming.
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It's like the late stage capitalism version of the Christmas Truce. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce …
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