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The Wages and the Fair Labor Standard Act was established to keep employers honest and hard-earned money in employee pockets. According to the Department of Labor, employers are "required to display an official poster outlining the requirements of the FLSA." Unfortunately, that's not always the case. A Redditor by the user name "MrEktidd" took to the "Am I the A**hole (AITA)" forum to tell the tale of docked pay and, not surprisingly, the internet collectively did the same.
"I come in to work every day an hour early(paid OT). A few times I was literally less than a minute late and had 15 minutes docked from my pay," the Redditor wrote. "So now I refuse to work if it's not being paid. Task is going to take me 2 minutes after the home bell? Guess I'm stretching it for 15. Clock in at 5:46? Guess I'll sit and wait til 6. If you're gonna take my money, I'm gonna take your minutes. Simple as that."
The story resonated with many who shared their own tales of unfair working conditions in regards to money and time worked.
rservello said: "I worked for a company that was taking their taxes out of our pay and claiming it's because they were paying as 1099 and just taking the taxes out that would have been taken anyway. Firstly. I filled out a w4. Secondly, if I were 1099 I would get the entire amount with nothing taken out. I didn't hire them to do my taxes. We got a class action suit against them and won. I got my lost wages back plus an additional $1500."
"I was the bookkeeper for a man who would edit his employees time card if they clocked in early. If they were supposed to be on at 7am and they clocked in at 650am, he'd manually alter their time card to say 7am. Even if they were on early and working, he'd still do it and not tell them. I finally quit because he was a shady MOFO," votedog wrote.
"Worked somewhere that would the owner would clock us out after close despite us being there 30 mins to an hour after actually closing. I think I worked 3 shifts before I quit," Snoyarc said.
ilostmygender weighed in saying, "was half the reason i quit working at a swim school where we were required to be there 20 minutes early for "pre-shift meetings and setting up the pool" but they always changed our hours manually to our scheduled time, taking away those 20 minutes every single time."
"I had an employer do this to me when I was 19 making like $9 an hour at a sandwich chain. I was paid bi-weekly and had kept all of my clock out receipts and he was off by 9 hours. $81 isn't a ton of money, unless you are making $900 a month, then its quite a bit. Called the owner of the franchise (his father-in-law) and told them what happened and that I had contacted an attorney. Dude fired his son-in-law and paid me $250. I quit a week later and the guy ended up getting divorced a few months later.... over $81," Fatpostman39 added.
LATourGuide found some retribution adding, "I worked somewhere that got sued for "rounding" the time clock to the nearest 15 minutes. They had to cut us all a check for all the rounded off time, I got about $400."
