What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Oregon
So I was recently let go from a job that I have been at for 6 years. Back in April I had found out that the way they were rounding was not adding up. I spoke with the Payroll company that does our payroll just to ask if they were aware of the issue. Didn't hear back from them. However, I did hear from the owner of my job that I had to not get involved in things that weren't my business and that even then what they were doing was completely legal. I said that rounding is legal but it has to average out to benefit both employer and employee. The way they were doing the rounding was as follows. It went by the 10th of the hour.
The way it went was as follows. Clock in at say 3:42 and it would round up to 3:50. Clock out at 3:49 and it would round down to 3:40. If it rounded approriately it would have rounded down before the 5 min mark and above after.
I spoke with BOLI about it and they said they can only go back to November. I'm sure it's been happening since they switched to the payroll company that they have now. They did stop doing it about 2 weeks after I noticed though. I'm betting because they found it that it was in fact illegal. Should I talk to a lawyer directly and see if they can petition the payroll company to hand over the actual time stamp along with the rounded times that they have on file? I would like to see all the hourly people get reimbursed for the minutes they lost. I know in 1 pay period it was 120 minutes gone. When i pointed it out the Operations Manager said yeah it's only 120 minutes that's not enough to complain about.
So I was recently let go from a job that I have been at for 6 years. Back in April I had found out that the way they were rounding was not adding up. I spoke with the Payroll company that does our payroll just to ask if they were aware of the issue. Didn't hear back from them. However, I did hear from the owner of my job that I had to not get involved in things that weren't my business and that even then what they were doing was completely legal. I said that rounding is legal but it has to average out to benefit both employer and employee. The way they were doing the rounding was as follows. It went by the 10th of the hour.
The way it went was as follows. Clock in at say 3:42 and it would round up to 3:50. Clock out at 3:49 and it would round down to 3:40. If it rounded approriately it would have rounded down before the 5 min mark and above after.
I spoke with BOLI about it and they said they can only go back to November. I'm sure it's been happening since they switched to the payroll company that they have now. They did stop doing it about 2 weeks after I noticed though. I'm betting because they found it that it was in fact illegal. Should I talk to a lawyer directly and see if they can petition the payroll company to hand over the actual time stamp along with the rounded times that they have on file? I would like to see all the hourly people get reimbursed for the minutes they lost. I know in 1 pay period it was 120 minutes gone. When i pointed it out the Operations Manager said yeah it's only 120 minutes that's not enough to complain about.