Posted: 7/16/2013 3:10:49 PM EDT
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Having worked at this company a number of years as defined by the FLSA an exempt employee, our HR and/or legal department has never required anyone to sign off in writing what our workings hours would be. Everyone has simply talked it over with their supervisor and called it good.
I've gotten word though that my department, and I do emphasize my department only (not HR, not legal, not top execs or anything like that) is about to have employees fill out a form stating their work hours that they and their supervisor must sign off on. This has not been approved by our HR dept, nor accounting nor anyone else. So my question is, how could I be forced to sign it? And also what ramifications could come of this if I did later on? What potential liability might I have created for myself? I realize the FLSA allows employers to define work hours for employees and create records accounting for this. All of that is usually handled by our HR department or accounting, not by our own department (sorry I can't be more specific here). The only potential angle I can see here is they want to get some peoples signatures on file in order to hold it against them later for whatever offense they can come up with. |
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Texas is an employ at will state. Your employer does not need a reason to fire you, they can fire you for any reason except those that are federally protected. For example, they can't fire you for being a minority. They can however fire anyone that refuses a reasonable request such as establishing hours In which they are expected to be present at work, minority or not.
I am not a lawyer, YMMV, etc. |