What are my options for getting paid accurately?
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What are my options for getting paid accurately?
I work for a small company and since they switched us in july from quasi-hourly pay check semi-monthly, always the same amount, overtime paid out in compensatory time instead of on our check to normal hourly, our paychecks have been consistently short. They are trying to fix it and keep blaming the time keeping company but I just have a hard time believing it’s actually on their end. Their website says they have 30,000 clients. If they were having software issues of this magnitude for this long they would already be out of business. My other serious concern is there were people that were hourly before July. In all likelihood their checks have been wrong all along. I am not confident that they have done any sort of audit which is just plain wrong. I tried talking to the DOL but because the issue is with regular hours not OT and we make more than minimum wage, they couldn’t help me. They forwarded me to a state wage complaint office but he said it would jeopardize my job no kidding. I’m not sure what else to do. Going above payroll’s head is oddly not actually an option.
Asked on October 18, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Indiana
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unfortunately, if going to upper management is not an option and the department of labor will not help, your only real option is to sue your employer for the money: you would sue based on "breach of contract": for violating the agreement (even if only an oral or unwritten one) pursuant to which you worked for a certain amount of pay. Obviously, suing your employer will have consequences for your relationship with it. You may wish to seek other employment (since this employer has a very cavalier attitude towards honoring its obligations) then, once you have new job, sue for the money you are owed.
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