Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number of Suits

[aephi alum]

This was in the NY Times today. Just another example of the working class getting screwed.

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As a former member of the Air Force military police, as a play-by-the-rules guy, Drew Pooters said he was stunned by what he found his manager doing in the Toys "R" Us store in Albuquerque.

Inside a cramped office, he said, his manager was sitting at a computer and altering workers' time records, secretly deleting hours to cut their paychecks and fatten his store's bottom line.

"I told him, `That's not exactly legal,' " said Mr. Pooters, who ran the store's electronics department. "Then he out-and-out threatened me not to talk about what I saw."

link to article (You need to be registered with the NY Times to read the article, but registration is free. It's kind of long but I'll post the full article if you want.)

[sageofages]

Originally posted by aephi alum
This was in the NY Times today. Just another example of the working class getting screwed.

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As a former member of the Air Force military police, as a play-by-the-rules guy, Drew Pooters said he was stunned by what he found his manager doing in the Toys "R" Us store in Albuquerque.

Inside a cramped office, he said, his manager was sitting at a computer and altering workers' time records, secretly deleting hours to cut their paychecks and fatten his store's bottom line.

"I told him, `That's not exactly legal,' " said Mr. Pooters, who ran the store's electronics department. "Then he out-and-out threatened me not to talk about what I saw."

link to article (You need to be registered with the NY Times to read the article, but registration is free. It's kind of long but I'll post the full article if you want.)

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[aephi alum]

Here ya go

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Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number of Suits
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Published: April 4, 2004

As a former member of the Air Force military police, as a play-by-the-rules guy, Drew Pooters said he was stunned by what he found his manager doing in the Toys "R" Us store in Albuquerque.

Inside a cramped office, he said, his manager was sitting at a computer and altering workers' time records, secretly deleting hours to cut their paychecks and fatten his store's bottom line.

"I told him, `That's not exactly legal,' " said Mr. Pooters, who ran the store's electronics department. "Then he out-and-out threatened me not to talk about what I saw."

Mr. Pooters quit, landing a job in 2002 managing a Family Dollar store, one of 5,100 in that discount chain. Top managers there ordered him not to let employees' total hours exceed a certain amount each week, and one day, he said, his district manager told him to use a trick to cut payroll: delete some employee hours electronically.

"I told her, `I'm not going to get involved in this,' " Mr. Pooters recalled, saying that when he refused, the district manager erased the hours herself.






Edited. I had to delete the full text. Its agaisnt gc poilcy stated by John in the rules for this forum. If you wish to post a link to the full article thats ok/

Edited by aephi alum: I was specifically asked to post the full text, therefore I posted it. I did originally post a summary and a link. However, you must be registered with NY Times to click through, and not everyone is willing to register, therefore I honored the request for posting the full article.

[DeltAlum]

It was also in the Denver Post.

Suspect there will be investigations and possibly prosecution under the wage and hour laws.

[CatStarESP4]

It's really disturbing!