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Government employer who shall remain nameless found out our department was working X schedules & issued letters of investigation naming us as “targets” in a time fraud investigation as we were “shorting the organization work hours” & “falsifying time cards”. We were working X schedules because we are salaried & often work extra hours & off schedule days due to the nature of our work. The theory was that it all broke even; our whole dept took the good with the bad & embraced it. Organization decides to enforce a new dept schedule which forces us into losing a day off, but still having to do all the extra work, and for no extra compensation. It was effectively a pay cut. Schedule is still 4 10's & is good, but not as good as it was. No one was fired or forced to resign fortunately as they recognized we were…


Government employer who shall remain nameless found out our department was working X schedules & issued letters of investigation naming us as “targets” in a time fraud investigation as we were “shorting the organization work hours” & “falsifying time cards”.

We were working X schedules because we are salaried & often work extra hours & off schedule days due to the nature of our work. The theory was that it all broke even; our whole dept took the good with the bad & embraced it.

Organization decides to enforce a new dept schedule which forces us into losing a day off, but still having to do all the extra work, and for no extra compensation. It was effectively a pay cut. Schedule is still 4 10's & is good, but not as good as it was. No one was fired or forced to resign fortunately as they recognized we were all following what we believed to be a legitimate dept policy.

Employees & dept mgmt conduct research & determine based on FLSA duties tests we're likely not legally allowed to be salaried. Dept mgmt files w/ organization to revoke/remove FLSA status. Rumor is organization is fighting the removal of the FLSA status & advising if we do get it revoked & go hourly everyone is likely to get a pay cut. Part of their reasoning is that our union says it would be unfair to mix hourly & salary positions under the same contracts.

I honestly love my job, but feel like our organization does not value or understand our department. It makes me so frustrated. I also feel like our union is useless.

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