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Has Your Lawyer Reported Your Work Time Inaccurately or Suppressed Your Wages in Other Ways?

Even with automated systems in place, employers in California can manipulate their employees’ hours and wages in several ways. From intentionally misrepresenting the amount of time you have worked to assigning you work the employer considers “off the clock,” and not paying overtime rates, we have seen employers’ creativity in how they
withhold compensation from their employees.

Californian employees deserve every cent they’ve earned. If you suspect that an employer has withheld wages—intentionally or not—or you have been underpaid for other reasons, it is time to demand the compensation you deserve. Call the California employment law attorneys at ARCH Legal PC today at (866) 331-1338 or contact us by email.

Employers Are Legally Required to Report Time Accurately. Not All Employers Follow the Law.

California’s Labor Code is abundantly clear in demanding that employers:

• Pay their employees on time
• Pay the entire sum of money the employee has earned
• Abide by minimum wage laws
• Pay overtime compensation according to the legally accepted rate
• Maintain accurate records detailing the hours the employee has worked
• Abide by other mandatory record-keeping related to employee wages, including the actual start and end time of employees’ shifts
• Maintain four years’ worth of records

An employer should also be willing and able to provide you with records related to your hours worked, per-hour rate, and total pay. Transparency and timeliness are critical to fair, accurate payrolls.

If you have even a seed of doubt about whether you have been paid accurately, a California employment law attorney from ARCH Legal PC will demand all relevant records and determine if you have been underpaid.

Employers’ Ability to Manipulate Time Records Poses an Ethical Dilemma

For most employers in California, there is no ethical dilemma. When an employee works a certain amount of time and is entitled to breaks and benefits, they are entitled to fair pay. Other employers are tempted to benefit themselves financially at employees’ expense and may manipulate time records by:

• Assigning work outside the scope of a pay period: An employer might attempt to shoehorn in work during periods when you should not be expected to do work. Or, if you are paid hourly, an employer might try to have you do work while off the clock (perhaps by suggesting it’s “not really work”). You must be compensated for all work completed, period.
• Intentionally underreporting the employee’s hours: Many employers have the ability to manipulate employees’ timesheets. When employers intentionally underreport their employees’ hours, they are breaking the law. Even “rounding down” when an employee works a fraction of an hour is unethical and illegal.
• Not reporting overtime accurately: Employers must know when employees are entitled to overtime pay and pay the employee the rate they deserve.
• Altering the employee’s time entries after the fact: If your employer adjusted your time entries after you entered them, this is a blatant case of hours manipulation. Such manipulation can affect whether the employee is entitled to overtime compensation, which can exacerbate the financial harm.
• Not maintaining detailed documentation of the employee’s time: Disorganized record-keeping (or a lack of record-keeping) can lead to employees being underpaid. Employers have several basic responsibilities, and accurately recording employees’ hours and pay is near the top of the list.

These are just a few of the ways that employers fail to report an employee’s time accurately. Even when such inaccurate reporting is unintentional, the result is typically the same as intentional underreporting: The employee receives less compensation than they deserve.

ARCH Legal PC Fights for Fair Compensation for Underpaid Employees Throughout California

Employees’ rights are our concern at ARCH Legal PC. Employment law is the only type of law we handle, and we have more than 30 years of experience in this complicated field. All of our manpower and resources go towards cases like yours, and you should hire us because:

• Our experience with employment law makes us a formidable legal force: When a team of legal professionals spends more than three decades studying and applying California employment law, they become extremely effective representatives for employees like you. The many multi-million-dollar results we have obtained for clients are proof of our legal capability.
• Our client service is just as exceptional as our results: Expect excellent communication, rock-solid advice, prompt answers to your questions, and an overall experience that makes you feel like family.
• Our case-specific teams take on defendants of all types: ARCH Legal PC has obtained multi-million-dollar settlements and verdicts from many defendants who were determined not to pay our clients. No matter who your employer is, your case-specific legal team will hold them accountable for underreporting your time.

ARCH Legal PC knows exactly what time-keeping practices employers must adhere to. We can spot both intentional and unintentional underpayment of wages, and we have a wealth of strategies for securing the compensation our clients deserve for their hard work.

What Harm Does Inaccurate Time Reporting Cause to the Employee?

When employers do not accurately report employees’ time or underpay an employee for any other reason, their failure may entitle you to compensation for:

• Wage losses: You should be paid all the wages you earned but were not credited for.
• Penalty and premium pay: If your employer is subject to any penalties for failure to pay you on time or not providing breaks you were entitled to, your lawyer will include these penalties in your case.
• Lost benefits: Employers might underpay an employee by misclassifying them. This and certain other tactics can rob employees of certain benefits that they should have received. If this happens in your case, our team will seek compensation for such lost benefits.
• Psychological hardship: Being underpaid generally causes psychological hardship. You might even suffer emotionally and physically from stress related to unpaid wages.

Our California employment law attorneys take a holistic view of our cases. We won’t just consider the direct financial losses you’ve suffered but also how your employer’s failures have affected you as a person.

Let Us Make Your Case Against an Employee Who Has (Intentionally or Unintentionally) Underpaid You

ARCH Legal PC thinks outside the box to get fair compensation and justice for our clients. Your employer may have taken advantage of you, but no longer. Let an attorney from our firm:

• Gather all documentation showing that your time was not reported properly
• Document and calculate the harm you’ve suffered because you were underpaid
• Seek a fair settlement on your behalf
• Take your case to trial if we need to
• Handle every other aspect of your case

Life will not pause so that you can handle an employment law case. Let us handle it. This is what we do.

Call ARCH Legal PC Today for Your Consultation with a California Employment Law Attorney.

Trust us when we tell you there is nothing simple about a case involving underreported time or wages. Employment law is complicated by nature, which is why our attorneys and support staff dedicate their careers to it. You deserve to be paid fairly for work completed, and we are here to help.

Call ARCH Legal PC today at (866) 331-1338 or contact us by email for your consultation.