pahrens
09-13-2004, 07:58 AM
Hopefully someone here can answer a few questions...
A little info: I worked at Triple B Automotive in meridian ms for about 2.3 years under the bogus title of "operations manager". The reason I say this was a bogus title, is that about 95% of my time was spent doing manual labor and I did not manage anything. I was just laid off. Since I now do not have to worry about being fired for starting trouble, I was wondering about a few things...
1. Overtime Hours: My employer was not recording the hours that I worked due to being pay sal. at 616.00 a week, on many ocasions I had to work during days off and after hours repairing server crashes/software updates. I recorded the overtime that I worked which totals 165 hours just in the last year. Is my record of hours worked enuf to file a claim for my unpaid time? or would it be a matter of my word vs the employers? I would not put it past them to say that my record was either fabricated or that it was unauthorized even tho I was asked to do it.
2. before being switched from hourly to salery, I have about 40-50 hours of over time that I only got paid $8 an hour when my normal rate of pay was $12.50, this has been a little over 2 years (27 months)... can I even do anything about this now? Jobs down here are hard to come by and another employee was fired for dubious reasons after raising a similar issue.
3. While out of state for thanksgiving, my car died and I could not return on the following day. I was told this was not a problem but when I got my check 2 weeks later, it had a day docked from my pay. since I had permission to miss that day, and was not told that I would be docked, can they do this?
Thank you for your time and hopefully you can help me.
P Ahrens
A little info: I worked at Triple B Automotive in meridian ms for about 2.3 years under the bogus title of "operations manager". The reason I say this was a bogus title, is that about 95% of my time was spent doing manual labor and I did not manage anything. I was just laid off. Since I now do not have to worry about being fired for starting trouble, I was wondering about a few things...
1. Overtime Hours: My employer was not recording the hours that I worked due to being pay sal. at 616.00 a week, on many ocasions I had to work during days off and after hours repairing server crashes/software updates. I recorded the overtime that I worked which totals 165 hours just in the last year. Is my record of hours worked enuf to file a claim for my unpaid time? or would it be a matter of my word vs the employers? I would not put it past them to say that my record was either fabricated or that it was unauthorized even tho I was asked to do it.
2. before being switched from hourly to salery, I have about 40-50 hours of over time that I only got paid $8 an hour when my normal rate of pay was $12.50, this has been a little over 2 years (27 months)... can I even do anything about this now? Jobs down here are hard to come by and another employee was fired for dubious reasons after raising a similar issue.
3. While out of state for thanksgiving, my car died and I could not return on the following day. I was told this was not a problem but when I got my check 2 weeks later, it had a day docked from my pay. since I had permission to miss that day, and was not told that I would be docked, can they do this?
Thank you for your time and hopefully you can help me.
P Ahrens
