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Manager changing my timesheet to add unpaid lunch breaks

Regional managers are retroactively editing employee timesheets to subtract unpaid lunch breaks from shifts worked continuously without a break. This forces employees to work for free during busy periods when stopping mid-transaction or taking time off is impossible, resulting in stolen wages and altered company records.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    Contacting the Canada Revenue Agency or provincial ministry of labour
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    Escalating the issue to HR or higher-level management
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    Consulting with a union or employment lawyer
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    Documenting hours independently and keeping records
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    Joining in the work to solve the problem immediately and discussing boundaries later
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    Volunteering for on-call duty when explicitly asked and compensated

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“She uses my manager's credentials (she has now changed her access after I told her that was a big no-no) to go back in and add me a lunch break on a shift where I didn't take any.”source ↗

“There is no way that I'm working for free nor am I kicking paying customers out mid-transaction.”source ↗

“During christmas week, we were both working (busy) and neither of us took lunches but she still added them in afterwards”source ↗

Shiny · The Workplace Stack Exchange · 23 upvotes

“However, I never agreed to work this weekend. It is neither part of my legal obligations as an employee, nor par for the course in our job as an informal practice”source ↗

“About an hour ago, our lead posted in our work chat. He included some code snippet, tagged me, and complained about some error that, in his view, was caused by my changes.”source ↗

Sergey Zolotarev · The Workplace Stack Exchange · 15 upvotes

Where this came up

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