Hargill did disclose some details about his personal reasons at the hearing. They came too late. The company s action can be judged only on the basis of the information it had at the time it fired Hargill. Generally, arbitrators do not consider as voluntary a company s order that overtime be performed. The employer has the right to require an employee to put in reasonable extra hours.
Overtime has priority even over a moonlighting job.
Only an employee s illness, incapacity, a family emergency, or the like can excuse a refusal to put in the extra time.