Around 2015, My niece told me she worked at a bank teller and the first thing they did was require her to install the bank’s app and rate it five stars. She said her phone is too old and they got angry. And she’d tell me they’d do “phone sweeps” to see if the app was on people’s phones.

Do min-wage companies still do this or do they know better?

Personal devices are personal.

Nowhere in the civilized world are they allowed to do this.

America is a pro-business country.

They can fire you for any reason, like if they hate you’re gay. They don’t SAY that. They wishy washy it with “not a cultural fit”. Or throw you into difficult situations so they can fire you with “unable to complete tasks”.

I have Europeans who joined my company surprised at how little protection they get.

right to work state here. they can fire me because they don’t like my haircut.