So with the latest push to get employees out of Work-From-Home and to Return-To-Office, it has been in my interest lately to examine contracts. However I noticed something very odd when examining my documents from signing on…bit of background to follow.
Working in tech, and my title was generally “______ Engineer” after getting shuffled around during covid from another role. (So, there's a initial date for this “initial promotion” and signing-over)
After having gotten some time under my belt, I got an offer for 'promotion' and title of “______ Engineer II” (let's call this the “post promotion”). I signed “OK” for this, but this also occurred before all this RTO suddenly dropped down. Once they RTO notice came down, I got offered an additional pay “increase” (8% lol!), however I haven't agreed to this one yet. Because I thought “Hey, they said RTO is 'in the contract', so let's go look at the contract.”
It's important to note that this staffing company has a whole internal system for things like requesting PTO, filling out timesheets, training certs, as well as reviewing documents to sign with DocuSign. I go to look at my documents for the initial promotion dated some time last year…however in the document I notice that it shows my title from a year ago as the post promotion title they just gave me.
Which seems to indicate to me, that their system of role titles and document works such that they have retroactively changed the contents of the contract documents
Is this even legal??? (California)
If it's not legal, how to I pin them to the wall for this?
What would I need to have in hand to ensure I have a concrete argument?
The difficulty being that I did not anticipate they'd do something like this, but now in “going back” to search for unchanged documents, it's becoming quite a hunt to find originals. In fact when I go to look at some documents through the employee portal, it now says they are “unavailable” for viewing. This stinks from top to bottom!