Contractors are being asked to work significantly more than 40 hours and they are, yet not allowed to charge the hours they work. Is this legal?
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The Internal Audit manager was asking you to work for free without payment so that means they're just as corrupt as everybody because their job is to root out corruption.
My Wells Manager has loaded me up knowing work takes more than 40 hrs. My vendor tells me - don’t charge more than 40, or you can be let go.
This set up has to be illegal, and happens most in IT and believe it or not, in internal IT Audit...
Nasty....
And why would they risk something as blatantly illegal as this?
My Wells Manager has loaded me up knowing work takes more than 40 hrs. My vendor tells me - don’t charge more than 40, or you can be let go.
This set up has to be illegal, and happens most in IT and believe it or not, in internal IT Audit...
Nasty....
Ugly truth: If you don't want to have your contract cut short, you often have to put hours in without pay. I hated every minute of this ugly truth when working for shady clients.
It's awful and against IRS regulation, but it's true.
C-appy companies/managers pull stunts like this. The good ones don't.
As a bank contract employee some of the jobs I have held at the banks have often required working late at night for 1 to several days of the week, often after all, or most, of the internal employees have left for the day. The impression was if you did not put in the extra required overtime, like a salaried internal employee, you would be terminated from your contract job and that the limit for charging hours was 40 hours per week. One Manager told me the bank did not have the money to pay my contract salary for more than 40 hours, but required overtime work.
Some of the contract jobs at the banks treated the contractors work wise, like internal employees, who are salaried, get raises, have paid vacation, paid holidays, pretty good insurance and usually a yearly bonus. The contract employees usually have none of these types of benefits, maybe a week of paid vacation time, but that's about it. Terrible insurance. No job security at all.
You tell your WF manager that your agency won't pay overtime unless it is approved by WF first. So any questions about WF wanting "extras" is nipped in the bud and they need to take it up with your agency.
I believe the original poster is saying that he/she is a W2 or 1099 employee of a contract firm. Therefore, no overtime should be worked unless they ask for it and the WF manager approves it, otherwise no overtime should be worked.
It depends on your contract with WF. Wf and your company may be under contract to only pay for 40 hrs. week and that’s all you should bill them. But your employer is obligated to pay you for the hours you’ve worked unless you are salaried. While it may be legal, I’d be concerned if this becomes a pattern since there’s no reason WF won’t ask you to work 80+ hours if it won’t cost them anymore. It’s like paying for one employee and getting 2 employees
While this is definitely illegal, I’m slightly confused. Each individual is responsible for completing their own timecard before submitting it for approval.
Bring this to the attention of your agency, but also complete your timecard accurately to reflect the hours worked. After all, when submitting it, you ultimately attest to its accuracy.
Definitely illegal.
Honestly, given the trouble WF is is, I'm surprised any manager is opening WF up to more lawsuits and bad PR by ask questions by a contractor to work without pay.
Notify your agency.
That happened when I worked as a contractor at Bank of America. Once when working as a contractor at Bank of America I was told to "pull an all nighter" to get something done. I lasted until around 1 AM, working remotely when I got home, went to sleep for a few hours and then got up at 5 AM to be in the Bank of America office at 7 AM the next day. Not even a word of thanks and NO extra pay, just paid for the scheduled 40 hour work week. I also had to work once the entire weekend when a contractor at Bank of America, to get something done by Monday. No mention of my extra efforts, no thanks, no pay for that over 40 hours per week extra time. In the contract with the contracting company it states that any time over 40 hours, not paid, is against the regulations.
No it's illegal. You make sur you do your 8bhours and leave work behind. Any overtime pay has to be discussed ahead of time with your agency usually billing at straight time.