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At my job I help put with timesheets/payroll for our engineers. This is a hard job since our engineers are drive testers who are out in the field and we really have no way of verifying their hours and we pretty much need to go by what they say. Well we just hired a ton of new engineers on and sent them out to a sort of sister company we work with to all get trained in CA. They kept track of their time there and sent in timesheets two weeks later. One of the groups all had the same hours for two days which would be normal however on of the managers here did not believe that they were training for 8 hours a day for those two days. I went to all the engineers in that group and made sure that those were the correct hours and said that if they worked any less they need to note it and not just round up to 8. They all stuck by their story. When it was time to turn in the payroll I noticed that the manager was taking of 1.5 hours for each of those days. I didn’t think that was legal since they have no way to prove that they didn’t work 8 hours.
I went to the HR manager and had sat down to ask her about it and she sort of went off on me. She said it was not my decision and it’s not my job to worry about the legality. I mentioned that since I have a hand in the payroll process that I was just trying to kind of cover my a** and that I did not want a hand in something that was not legal. She told me they do everything according to the state and federal laws and not to worry about it and that is why they are managers and I am just an employee. I kept trying to explain to her that I have never known any instance where it was ok to cut hours based on not believing the employee if you do not have proof. Also they do not tell the engineers how many total hours they are going to get paid for and since they are on the road they just get a check direct deposited to their bank accounts but no pay stub. I didn’t see that they were giving the engineer a chance to speak up about it.
Can someone please tell me if this is legal or not and what I can do about it? THANKS!
At my job I help put with timesheets/payroll for our engineers. This is a hard job since our engineers are drive testers who are out in the field and we really have no way of verifying their hours and we pretty much need to go by what they say. Well we just hired a ton of new engineers on and sent them out to a sort of sister company we work with to all get trained in CA. They kept track of their time there and sent in timesheets two weeks later. One of the groups all had the same hours for two days which would be normal however on of the managers here did not believe that they were training for 8 hours a day for those two days. I went to all the engineers in that group and made sure that those were the correct hours and said that if they worked any less they need to note it and not just round up to 8. They all stuck by their story. When it was time to turn in the payroll I noticed that the manager was taking of 1.5 hours for each of those days. I didn’t think that was legal since they have no way to prove that they didn’t work 8 hours.
I went to the HR manager and had sat down to ask her about it and she sort of went off on me. She said it was not my decision and it’s not my job to worry about the legality. I mentioned that since I have a hand in the payroll process that I was just trying to kind of cover my a** and that I did not want a hand in something that was not legal. She told me they do everything according to the state and federal laws and not to worry about it and that is why they are managers and I am just an employee. I kept trying to explain to her that I have never known any instance where it was ok to cut hours based on not believing the employee if you do not have proof. Also they do not tell the engineers how many total hours they are going to get paid for and since they are on the road they just get a check direct deposited to their bank accounts but no pay stub. I didn’t see that they were giving the engineer a chance to speak up about it.
Can someone please tell me if this is legal or not and what I can do about it? THANKS!
