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 the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since November 2025.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Contacting the Canada Revenue Agency or provincial ministry of labourDid this help you?
- 2Escalating the issue to HR or higher-level managementDid this help you?
- 3Consulting with a union or employment lawyerDid this help you?
- 4Documenting hours independently and keeping recordsDid this help you?
- 5Joining in the work to solve the problem immediately and discussing boundaries laterDid this help you?
- 6Volunteering for on-call duty when explicitly asked and compensatedDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, 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 ↗
“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 ↗
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