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Is this legal?

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Medellon

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My girlfriend started working for a CPA as an accountant about a year ago. I don't particularly like her job because she is paid peanuts for having a BA in accounting and her hours are long. Yesterday she tells me she wants to look for a new job and I ask her why the change of heart all of a sudden. She reluctantly tells me that even though she works 50-55 hours per week her boss always shorts her about 5 hours because he said she was slow and what takes her say 4 hours to do should only take 3 or whatever, according to him. He started doing this like 2 months after she was hired and has continued this practice to this day, can he legally do this?
 
Originally posted by: Medellon
My girlfriend started working for a CPA as an accountant about a year ago. I don't particularly like her job because she is paid peanuts for having a BA in accounting and her hours are long. Yesterday she tells me she wants to look for a new job and I ask her why the change of heart all of a sudden. She reluctantly tells me that even though she works 50-55 hours per week her boss always shorts her about 5 hours because he said she was slow and what takes her say 4 hours to do should only take 3 or whatever, according to him. He started doing this like 2 months after she was hired and has continued this practice to this day, can he legally do this?
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no
 
In no way is that legal. If she is an hourly employee, then she is to be paid for every hour that she is on the clock. It is not his decision to determine which hours he chooses to pay her for.
 
Check with your state labor board, it's not legal btw.

Get a lawyer, bring a suit for compensation, she will need proof of hours worked and payment records.

Look for another job. God help him if he harasses or fires her, even with a pending legal action.

He will give her a vg referral 😀

 
Big-time illegal. Have your GF call the state labor dept. and they will nail his ass to the wall.
 
not legal... she is entitled to all the wages withheld from this job... 4*52=208 hours of wages that she is owed plus interest and the hassle... she should sue him.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
why did she even let him do this in the first place? The court would probably ask the same question should she sue
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Why would she do it?

Perhaps she was afraid of losing her job. Perhaps she felt bad that she had failed.

Who knows, it doesn' t matter.

Highly illegal. Start documenting it (getting him on tape would be great), & then nail his ass.

Viper GTS
 
She should need proper evidence that she did indeed work those unpaid hours. If it's easily proven that she wasn't compensated properly then her boss can have a nice talk with her lawyer.
 
Sounds like she's either young or stupid. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and think she's young. Now, get a lawyer and sue. She should be able to settle for no less than a couple years salary so tell her not to worry about losing her job, she'll be able to get one within 2 years and that's the low end of the settlement. 😉

If she doesn't get a lawyer, than I'm sorry, I was wrong about the young part. She's just plain stupid. 😉
 
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