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For those of you who have received the 15 minutes - of pay for NJA

Posted: Sep 30, 2010

how do you know you've been paid that time by looking at your pay stub?

And does it show up on your time sheets as an adjustment by your CCM?

The reason I ask is because I don't believe I have ever been paid this 15 minutes of time (the waiting time when we get NJA).

I asked about this recently. I asked both my CCM and payroll, and my question was never answered...it was just swept under the rug as if I never asked.

I am planning to call the labor department about this because it seems to me MQ is trying to screw me over yet again. They have failed to pay me PTO 3 times now, and each time I have to jump through 1000 hoops to get it fixed...and now this. I'm tired of jumping through hoops to get my correct pay.

If someone could let me know how I can differentiate this 15 minutes on my pay stub and/or time sheet, I would appreciate it!

I assume the Wrk AV Mwage on pay stub is the - 15 mins of NJA, but who knows. NM

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nm

Yeah, that's, it, and .........sm - mb

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It shows up on your time sheet as .25 of admin time. I get paid for about 3 out of every 5 NJA requests I submit. I send email after email and my CCM ignores me. Sometimes I just give up, it's just too much trouble for $1.85! That doesn't make it suck any less, tho.

you have to nag them to do it - seriously

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They do not like to submit becuase the CCMs get "scolded" for having it on there. They try to talk us out of getting it by saying "you can make more if you make up your time."

This is a company policy because they make us sit there for 15 minutes but then dont want to pay it.

The reason I insist on it is not for the money... I want this on my card as proof there was no work and forced to sit and wait for work. Additionally, if I run out every day, that is 1:15 each week that I do not HAVE to make up! Where there is no work, how do you make up all that time and still get PTO?

I think everyone of us needs to fight to get this!

I have just submitted a ticket, emailed my - CCM and emailed the

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payroll contact from LAST time they messed up my check (which was just the last pay period).

This is the second pay period in a row they have not paid me my requested PTO. Now I know that they have NEVER paid me that 15 minutes of NJA.

By golly, they will pay it, and if they don't want to, I will report them for it. At this point, with all the NJA I've had, it amounts to quite a bit of money...not to mention hours.

I'm with you on the NJA, but I will say that my good CCM did give me time for the downtime of t - beyondbelief

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And furthermore, I would like to address the person in my post below when I was so upset over many issues. It was totally inappropriate for you to address my post as such, and assume I was stupid for working on Sundays. I have been with the Q for going on 18 years now. I have always had sunday hours. I am NOT a brainwashed employee. I was simply asking for a response to whether anyone who was part of the DQS downage this past weekend being given the downtime. Quite frankly, I have not gotten but maybe 2 of the numerous NJA times on my timecard. My CCM still did not get the okay about the downtime, but she is putting it in anyway. Shame on you MQ for trying to deny it happened. It was a major issue. And whomever was the put down specialist below, shame on you. We are all in this together, and for whatever reason we are choosing to stay with the Q. This is a site where we are supposed to be able to vent our frustrations without recriminations.

Just to say, thank you to my CCM. Now another issue. For all these 18 years I have only been brought to notice on 2 reports that were wrong. I have taken pay cuts w/o complaint. I PRIDE myself on being a quality document. For the first time in over 5 years I get audited, and what is the pits is it was an account I had NEVER transcribed before!!!! I got a 91.8 and one of the errors was for a misplaced semicolon for crying out loud!!! Now, that is totally ridiculous!!! I am not one of the high paid employees, I took my pay cuts. I am also very sick, but continue to work for them; having only 4 years until I can retire... Now this audit on a TOTALLY unfamiliar account, and there were really only 2 glaring obvious errors I made (actually added something that was not dictated, and supposedly put a date of service that was wrong???)

So go ahead, slammer friend from below, Bash me again for my stupidity...

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