Can I make my employer pay me for the time it took me to verify the work hours a co-worker deleted from my time sheets and added to his time sheets?
I was a security guard at a Steel Mill and worked 2pm-10pm but the time sheets had 3pm-11pm. My pay checks seemed to be off some weeks so I would look at the time sheet and compare it to the back up time sheets, we kept in a folder for reference, for situations like this. They seemed to match up so I thought I was mistaken One day I had to switch my shift. I worked 10pm-6am and came back in and worked 2pm-10pm and the next day I worked 2pm-6am again my pay was off. I called the main office and she said we don't verify everyone's hours. She said we look to make sure the total hours for the day add up to 24 and for the week add up to 168. If they do we add up the hours written in for each person and pay them. I told her that we don't work 3-11, etc. she was not aware of that and said the time sheets should reflect the correct time we start and end. Then said I would have to make copies of 6 months of time sheets and the back up sheets and go through them myself and make a list of the days it's wrong, what hours it should say and which person had the missing hours then fax everything to her and she would go over it. It took me almost a month to compare the 2 sheets and match the hours up to my phones GPS timeline. I know I'm still missing hours but can't prove it cause my time line was set to delete anything over 3 months old. They said to mark down to my best recollection what I think it was. I will not do that, if I'm wrong I took hours from someone. They did nothing to make changes so this wouldn't happen to anyone else. Do I have a right to ask them to compensate me for all the hours I spent working on it and waiting almost 6 months to get what I was owed?
I was a security guard at a Steel Mill and worked 2pm-10pm but the time sheets had 3pm-11pm. My pay checks seemed to be off some weeks so I would look at the time sheet and compare it to the back up time sheets, we kept in a folder for reference, for situations like this. They seemed to match up so I thought I was mistaken One day I had to switch my shift. I worked 10pm-6am and came back in and worked 2pm-10pm and the next day I worked 2pm-6am again my pay was off. I called the main office and she said we don't verify everyone's hours. She said we look to make sure the total hours for the day add up to 24 and for the week add up to 168. If they do we add up the hours written in for each person and pay them. I told her that we don't work 3-11, etc. she was not aware of that and said the time sheets should reflect the correct time we start and end. Then said I would have to make copies of 6 months of time sheets and the back up sheets and go through them myself and make a list of the days it's wrong, what hours it should say and which person had the missing hours then fax everything to her and she would go over it. It took me almost a month to compare the 2 sheets and match the hours up to my phones GPS timeline. I know I'm still missing hours but can't prove it cause my time line was set to delete anything over 3 months old. They said to mark down to my best recollection what I think it was. I will not do that, if I'm wrong I took hours from someone. They did nothing to make changes so this wouldn't happen to anyone else. Do I have a right to ask them to compensate me for all the hours I spent working on it and waiting almost 6 months to get what I was owed?
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