Bullitt5339
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My old employer usually did the same thing. Unfortunately I was the one they kept on for the two weeks. It sucks not being a piece of crap, they knew I wouldn't be "that" guy.
When I put in my 2 weeks notice, I immediately went to work trying to finish all of the products that I was working on so that my replacement wouldnt have to try to figure out what still needed to be done on half finished work.
I was told that company policy was to send me home on severence and I had to leave. Then when we settled everything up, they tried to charge me for 2 weeks leave that I didn't want to take. I ended up having to go to DoL in order to get paid correctly after months of fighting with them. When DoL interviewed me, they asked a lot of questions that had nothing to do with the situation, which made me nervous about what was going on.
It turns out that the way my contract was written posed some serious questions. We typically worked 28 days in a row and then got 8 days off at the end. I thought I was salary, so the hours didn't matter, but to make the company more money, they were charging the government for work by the hour.
This means that under exempt status, I was set on 80 hours per pay period and they could work me 2 additional hours per day, up to a 16 hour max per pay period. After that, I had to be paid overtime. After additional investigation, they found that the company owed me over $40k in compensation over 3 years. They also determined that we were not being paid correctly by the schedule of labor, so all employees were immediately given an $8 an hour pay raise and back paid to their start date.
Needless to say, that company no longer has that contract. And noone would have even known they were sitting on 10s of thousands of dollars if I wouldn't have pressed the issue about my 2 week severence, which I didn't really expect to ever see.
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