I was talking to a younger coworker and this is his first full time job. He said he has been working 50 hour weeks. I said at least you get time and a half for that extra ten. He had no idea what I was talking about and pulled up his paystub and he wasn’t getting any time and half.
I tried to explain to him that there must be some mistake as that is the law as he is not salary.
Then a supervisor that is neither of our bosses tells me to “you need to send him away” as we were talking at my desk.
I thought this guy wanted to talk to me about something privately so I ask what’s up? He said nothing just you can’t be talking to him about things like that. It’s not your problem. I said it’s illegal and he doesn’t understand. So he says that the company HR knows about it and they are going to fix it.
So I asked HR if they were aware of some glitch in the payroll software or know why this was happening. She said she had no idea what I was talking about and they didn’t know of any problems.
I know it is illegal to discourage talking about how much people make, but is this legal?