DISGRUNTLED WORKERS CLAIM RETROACTIVE OVERTIME

THE SITUATION
Thirteen order-takers at an office equipment distributor were dismissed after internal investigations revealed they used company purchase orders to buy computers they had delivered to their own homes. The employees agreed to resign in lieu of having theft charges filed against them. Six months later, ten of the employees filed individual claims with the State Unemployment Commission that they had been forced to work unpaid overtime during their employment, using each other as witnesses. They stated their supervisor had forced them to punch out at the ends of their shifts, but required them to work several hours afterwards each day under threat of losing their jobs.

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY
This is a very common occurrence, and difficult for an employer to defense. Once an allegation of records fraud has been made and supported by witnesses (no matter how self-serving), it can be difficult for the employer to use employer-kept records to offset those allegations.

THE VIEWSENDER SOLUTION
This is a case where viewSender offers both obvious and not-so-obvious benefits. On the obvious side, viewSender could easily validate whether the employees were actually working on a computer at the alleged times and dates, whether the work being done was on behalf of the employer, and whether nights worked late coincided with late arrivals on the same day. Because viewSender records are self-verifying and use multiply redundant internal validation techniques, they are nearly impervious to human alteration without detection.

Not so obviously, viewSender would have provided indisputable proof of the original theft transactions in addition to evidence as to whether work was or was not being performed that benefitted the employer , and if upon dismissal the fired employees had been made aware that these records were available, it may well have discouraged any fraudulent after-the-fact claims