Quiz – When is An Employer on Notice that a Worker is Engaging in a Work Refusal?

A pipefitter for a sewer company is working in an excavation trench. Over the course of several weeks, he complains repeatedly to the co-worker overseeing deliveries of materials to workers in the trench about various aspects of the job, including overflowing toilets, lack of work gloves, the passing of loads overhead by crane operators, the sloping of the banks of the trench and the availability of phones and drinking water. The co-worker directs each of the pipefitter’s complaints to the site supervisor. One day, the pipefitter tells the co-worker that the steps in the trench are unsafe because the first step is too tall and that he won’t work in the trench until this issue is addressed. The co-worker reminds the pipefitter that he isn’t supervising the work in the trench and again directs the pipefitter to the site supervisor. The pipefitter simply tells the site supervisor that he doesn’t like the stairs. So the site supervisor tells him to use a ladder instead. The pipefitter refuses to use a ladder and reports his work refusal to the MOL. Take the QuizQuiz - When is An Employer on Notice that a Worker is Engaging in a Work Refusal?, 3.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating