Timeline for Employer doesn't want to pay me because I took longer than estimated to finish the work
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| May 28, 2017 at 5:37 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | @MatthewRead OP may be obliged to report to his superior what caused the delay (or what made the estimate inaccurate) as part of his job (for example, as feedback to improve future estimates or workflows). It is just that he shouldn't do it only to bow to the threat | |
| May 23, 2017 at 16:29 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @MatthewRead: I dunno; if the boss is actually threatening withholding salary because he thinks the OP has actually been skiving off, a little defensiveness may be warranted. It's clear there is inadequate day-to-day supervision, leading to what might just be a misunderstanding. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 16:15 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | @user1450877 though allegedly sometimes they work more to cover up the problem, than just fix it. #not-all-HR | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | user1450877 | @Wayne Werner Yes, to protect the company, not individual managers acting illegally. Their role here would to be protect the company from the behaviour of the manager that is exposing them to the risk of a lawsuit | |
| May 23, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | FWIW, HR's job is to protect the company, not employees. Well, at least that's its job at most companies. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | comment | added | Luaan | @Agent_L ... and even in the face of such misconduct, the consequences would likely be a loss of job (with or without a termination period), not a loss of pay. With a salaried employee, the employer takes on almost all of the risk - the contract doesn't say "you'll get paid as long as the work you turn out gets no complaints from me". I've seen some ridiculous cases where an employer had to pay a guy for the whole termination period, despite the guy literally coming to work for eight hours and reading newspaper (which is technically legal terms for immediate termination, but...). | |
| May 23, 2017 at 10:20 | comment | added | Agent_L | In salaried work, employee is not being paid for the job done, he's being paid for his effort to do the job. OP could have failed to finish the task altogether, and the salary is still due. If there is any dispute, it's the employer who has to prove employee's gross misconduct, not the other way around. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | Matthew Read | OP should not attempt to appease the boss's claim that he needs to explain before he gets paid. He doesn't, and shouldn't. There is plenty of room in a healthy manager-employee relationship for retrospectives, but this is neither a healthy relationship nor an legitimate attempt at assessing whatever planning issues there might have been. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | user1450877 | @Hello tell him it wasn't your estimate. also estimates change when the facts change. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | zOqvxf | Sorry messed up the first comment. 1. My boss said he wouldn't accept inaccurate estimates or the fact that I am less skilled as an excuse. But those are ofc the reasons behind the delays. He doesn't have a software background and is generally a very unprofessional manager. 2. Sorry that it wasn't stated more clearly in my question. I have been told what to refactor but was not getting help when I was stuck and since most of what I was doing was new to me I couldn't reasonably progress on my own. 3. I haven't fully studied whether this is in any way covered in my contract yet, but probably not | |
| May 22, 2017 at 14:06 | history | edited | Draken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 22, 2017 at 13:23 | history | answered | user1450877 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |