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Is this legal? I’m working 6+ hours and only being paid for 5 of them.

This is something I've been struggling to get a straight answer on. I'm working for, let's say, a plumbing outfit. I go out to a job driving the company van and according to the book this job is only supposed to take 5 hours to complete. For whatever reason, the job takes 6 hours to complete and I still need to gas and wash the van and end up putting in 6.5hrs of work (backed up by the van logs and couple personal timeclock apps on my phone). I only get paid for the 5 hours the job was supposed to take and it's logged as 5 hours on my pay stub. Is this wage theft, labor fraud, or something else? Or is this a legal way of doing things? I've worked for other “plumbers” and have never encountered an hourly cap like this and it's setting off all kinds…


This is something I've been struggling to get a straight answer on. I'm working for, let's say, a plumbing outfit. I go out to a job driving the company van and according to the book this job is only supposed to take 5 hours to complete. For whatever reason, the job takes 6 hours to complete and I still need to gas and wash the van and end up putting in 6.5hrs of work (backed up by the van logs and couple personal timeclock apps on my phone). I only get paid for the 5 hours the job was supposed to take and it's logged as 5 hours on my pay stub.

Is this wage theft, labor fraud, or something else? Or is this a legal way of doing things? I've worked for other “plumbers” and have never encountered an hourly cap like this and it's setting off all kinds of red flags. I reached out to a couple of labor groups and they wouldn't take my case because I made too much. I've also reached out to the local Labor Board a few times and haven't heard anything back yet.

Any help is appreciated.

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