Title: Late Wages & Time Sheets

Are companies allowed to withhold wages, or pay late wages to an employee who submits an inaccurate or late timesheet, or who doesn’t turn in a time sheet at all? We were recently told by our company that they do not have to pay us if we do not turn in timesheets. 

A lot of the employees have experienced paycheck discrepancies in the form of late wages. Most of the late wages are overtime wages. The company eventually pays the wages but some employees have waited up to a month to receive their owed wages.

The company claims that these late wages are due to employees submitting inaccurate timesheets or failing to submit a timesheet. This claim has frustrated the majority of employees who turn in their time sheets without error and on-time.

Even those employees have experience late wages. When the company finally issues the owed wages, the late wages are sometimes not accurately listed on our paychecks as adjustments or corrections. Management will simply add a few hours onto a future paycheck instead of submitting a correction to payroll.

This has been going on for about a year now. In the beginning the company blamed the discrepancies on the payroll department. But now the blame has shifted to the employees submitting inaccurate time sheets or not submitting a timesheet.

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