Employees Rights in an Emergency?

Waiting-for-Ivan asks: "In Florida in the past month and a half, we have survived 2 hurricanes. During the last one I was within the areas with a hurricane warning (i.e. hurricane conditions are expected within 24 hours). My company (who will remain unnamed) wanted everyone to come in. Those who did not come in had their pay docked (salary or hourly didn't matter) and threatened with loss of their pay for Labor Day. We are not an emergency facility whose services are required during an emergency. Is this legal? Can they make us come in during a hurricane warning (or any other environmental emergency) and if we refuse can they punish us for not doing so? Do we as employees have any rights (and can they dock salaried employees so easily)? What laws are in affect explaining these circumstances?

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We hold these truths to be self-evident...

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

Do we as employees have any rights (and can they dock salaried employees so easily)?

...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the RIGHTS TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES, TO STOP LOOKING TO THE GOVERNMENT TO SOLVE ALL THEIR PROBLEMS, TO QUIT WHINING, AND TO TELL THEIR EMPLOYERS TO GO fsck THEMSELVES.

Re:Thank your employer

[cft_128]

... for showing his true colors. Things are improving(praise W). Find a human boss, and leave.

Mod me down as flaimbait but W being responsible for more human bosses? Is this a joke? The same W that wanted to cut overtime? The same one that wants to classify fast food jobs as 'manufacturing' jobs? The same one that decides to no longer report on factory closings and mass-layoffs? The same one that wanted to cut 75% of the taxes corporations pay towards unemployment benefits and shift the costs to the states? The same one that wanted to cut job retraining funds for the recently unemployed? The same one that illegally did not appoint any representatives of labor or consumers to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations?
That is the average workers savior?