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No pay for lines typed - Fed up

Posted: Dec 04, 2013

No pay for lines typed (1400 to be exact). Manager and supervisor won't address issue. Have no contact with HR or Payroll as they will not respond to e-mails or phone calls. Should I contact the labor board to get paid?

I have the same problem - kdthorn

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My company has a "no pay policy" for any jobs containing mistakes such as job number, date of service, or whatever. I transposed two numbers on a six digit job number on a 40 minute dictation and got ZERO pay for it because of that.

Wait, wait, what... WHAT? - CuriousMT

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Okay, to the original person, where did these 1400 lines come from that you're not being paid for?

And to the commenter, this is the Nuance forum, and not that you can't talk about other companies in here, but I'm wondering if you're here because the company you work for has been bought by Nuance, or you're just here out of pure coincidence.

Either way, to the second person, that is RIDICULOUS! I don't see how that's legal. Unless they say that the work you've done is not usable because it won't go into the system and they can't correct it, I don't know how they have a leg to stand on with that requirement!

I agree with CuriousMT - sm

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That sounds illegal. In the words of Judge Judy, "If you ordered the steak and you didn't like it, but you ate it anyway, you have to pay for it." Your company "ate the steak" because I'm sure they did not scrap your 40 minutes of transcribed lines and redo it from scratch. Not cool.

Who the hell do these people think they are? - sm

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We don't know the reason you were not paid--could have been some kind of error (see how I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt?). However, someone in HR or Payroll should be responding to your emails and phone calls. That's their JOB.

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