call attorney general and do not work until paid
Posted By: Peter on 2008-09-08
In Reply to: No pay!!! - Punkin
that is BULL
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Try the Attorney General's Office...
for your State. Worked for me and I was an IC. Got my last check. Good luck.
Also contact your state Attorney General
consumer fraud division. Contact the local TV station that has a department for such fraud and ask them to investigate. Once you go public, you will be paid. Best of luck to you.
Report to BBB, then contact attorney general's
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make complaint to your state attorney general sm
google.com you particular state attorney general and read up a bit. Here in California I know I have read things in the newspaper where Jerry Brown was investigating this or that and taking action, scams was one thing. Type up the problem encountered, find the website and send an email with all the facts (complete) so that enables a proper investigation. If nobody complains, they get away with it. They depend on people not knowing what to do, or feel, what is the use.
Here is a link for my state, can click the titles, they open
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=california+state+attorney+general+consumer+fraud&rlz=1R2GGLJ_enUS333&aq=3&oq=california+state+attorney+g&aqi=g6.
Contact the Labor Board, the Attorney General's office,
send them a certified letter with return receipt giving them 10 days from date of the letter to issue you your money. Be sure and keep documentation of everything.
contact the attorney general in the state she is in and the better business bureau and
call the local newspaper and something like ABC on your side. Put the heavy duty pressure on her.
General Hosp...er General T-Tech
LOL
I think she means clinic work in general.
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I did phone training years ago on the platforrm and was paid 50.00 per call (sm)
The call usually lasted an hour, and was one-on-one.
Well, call a lawyer then. A good one. You could even get court costs paid by your employer probabl
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They are not MT, but general transcription. Pay not very high. at least not as high as MT work.x
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Yes, nice QA (and nice people in general), but very little work right now. nm
nm
Ever thought of a home health care aide? Usually paid training and start work right away. Can work
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attorney
Honestly, i would sign, collect my severance, and get another MT job. They have NO right to tell you who you can work for and that basically you have to leave your trained profession for a year. You know the MT business you cannot leave for a year and expect to get any kind of job again.
get an attorney
Absolutely get an attorney and go to your state labor board. They can take it much further than you can. Do you have any idea who is doing this to you and why? Your employer is unbelievably short-sighted and your co-worker - I don't even know what to say about that person! Best of luck. I am so glad you have some evidence.
D is an attorney
Just as a piece of information. Of course, she'd tell you to serve on jury duty.
All these weeks/months that the MTs from MDI have not had enough have been during the preparations for this merger. D was just taking care of herself -- she traded you all in for her retirement fund. She may have always talked like everything was about family, but at the end of the day, it has always been about business. I'm not a current MT with MDI, but worked there long enough to understand her personality.
Best of luck to all of you!
Attorney D
Thank you for the reminder about D being an attorney. I had completely forgotten about that. For me, that fact explains her actions a little better...
I had my attorney look at a contract also
I was asked to sign a really outrageous one.... not for Sten-Tel. I don't want to mention the company. It's hardly ever on here and I think I was the first and only person asked to sign one. Basically making me a slave with varying pay and other horrible things.
NO, they cannot! I consulted an attorney about this.
The consensus is that no one can prevent you from earning a living. Noncompete clauses aren't worth the paper they're written on and can't be enforced. What are they going to do, taunt you about being a traitor? Tell them kiss off and talk to your attorney IF they ever find out about it.
About contacting an attorney - sm
I too would like answers because half a truth is worse than a total lie because you mislead with half the truth and do much damage. Please clarify these issues for us.
1. Why would the company go to all the trouble to pull this two-bit prank when they could just say good bye to you if they wanted to. You have been ranting to all of us on shift with you for months about how you have been mistreated and were going to sue the company and demand unemployment. You did not tell the good MTs here who are ready to take your side and defend your position that All Type has a 3 strike rule and that you have told several of us that you were written up once for failing to make production of 1200 lines a day and then spewing some pretty foul language in an email to a supervisor about them making you do OP notes and type ESLs and how that was not fair to you. It is an acute care hospital. That is what we do. Do you remember telling us about being written up for falsifying your time card? Honestly, that is pretty serious. If you were the one telling us that, i cannot even imagine what you are not telling us and what your personnel file looks like.
2. I have not seen anyone leave, voluntarily or involuntarily on our team in some time. So who are you referencing when you say a lot of people quit or were fired. No one stays at a company that is horrendous and unfair out of the kindness of their heart. Are you telling us you just felt sorry for the company and the management team you hated and stayed to help them out?
3. Evidently you believe that you are a very high caliber employee and MT. I would think you would be able to go anywhere and find a perfectly wonderful job. I know most companies are just begging for real talent. Unemployment is probably your only alternative because we both know that you are NOT capable of working in any acute care setting - and unemployment and legal sources are going to laugh you out of the offices if you tell them the truth! Even if you fail to tell them the real story, your history is well documented.
4. From all of the foul statements you have made about this company and their management for months and threatening legal ramifications if they mess with you - I wonder why you would want to be a part of a company that you have made clear to any of us who will listen how much you hate All Type and all of the management. I also wonder if you do not know that from the beginning when you started making statements to the rest of us about lawsuits - that the company most surely handed your file over to a legal team. I suspect the legal department has been involved in all of this for several months.
Good luck missy. I have worked with you for well over a year and your professional behavior and abilities leave a lot to be desired. You have been so disruptive that most of your team has blocked you from IM and we are all glad that your drama from 4-12 everyday is finally done. You should have been doing your job instead of driving us all crazy with your IMs and maybe, just maybe this company would have valued you. As it is, what goes around comes around and your cheating, backstabbing, and lies came back around to you. I salute Karma!!!
Not an attorney, but have 2 in the family ...sm
My son-in-law is a newbie lawyer who does have an interest in labor law and the like. I've had numerous conversations with him re. the MTSOs and all they're able to get by with. Regarding your post above, the difference is ASKING YOU TO and REQUIRING YOU TO.
In any job paying on production, if there's no work on your shift DUE TO NO FAULT OF THE EMPLOYER (and this does NOT include having sent your work to VR when you on a straight MT shift and you're out of work) they may REQUEST that you make it up at a later date - this must be a mutually agreeable time. But THEY CANNOT REQUIRE you to make up work at a specific time - they must pay you minimum hourly wage for your time in that case. 
I don't get any other work type after OPs. I call in to see if they
are backed up on other accounts that they need help with. I have 4 accounts and when they run out I call. I AM NOT CHERRYPICKING. I am doing what I am given!!
I would call her ASAP rather than sit without work. nm
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Disagree. One letter from an attorney
to their clients would change this picture...
They broke the contract first by not paying according to agreement; that's all I'd need to either contact the clients directly myself or pay $100 bucks or so to have an attorney do it for me...
Again, you aren't looking for payment by contacting the client, you are advising them in advance that you are suing their provider and that they should be prepared to turn over documents/be subpoenaed.
Or, just roll over and hope the company chooses to pay you. Whatever.
Have an attorney send them a letter with
a copy of your contract. Also, as poster below says, look for a new job.
No Texas and will be seeing my attorney tomorrow.
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Update - saw my attorney and filed for
Two people at the unemployment office told me I have every right to claim unemployment. My attorney looked over my contract and apparently the owner didn't cover all her avenues and he found a loophole and told me to file. BTW - one of the ladies at the unemployment office told me they are seeing more and more MTs filing.
Take it to your Prosecuting Attorney's office
They will quickly act on it. She will pay or be arrested. If it is for more than $100, it is a felony charge.
Promised to call you to start work?
I'm sorry, but as a recruiter it's hard to believe that a company looks at your testing and assumes that you'll buy in to what they're selling before having a long discussion between the two of you. Something's fishy here.
Call the office and hopefully they will follow up with more work. nm
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But could you just not turn on computer that day and NOT do the work. Or could you call and say
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I guess that is what they call work ethic - sm
But even though it is hard, it depends on what is most important to you, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, or earning a living. When I first started this work at home, I told myself that I would do anything and I mean anything, to be successful. Even if it meant working until midnight, and believe me, there have been times when I HAVE worked until midnight and beyond, just to meet my TAT, but I did it. I work in my living room, where it is bright and airy. No TV. No radio or music. No distractions. I screen my phone calls and only answer the ones I know are important. I have injured friends' and family's feelings when they think that just because I am at home, I have time for their whims. I just look at it like it is a job just like any other. If I were in an office somewhere, I would not have time for cooking, cleaning, laundry, TV, etc. and the same applies at home. It is all in how much you want out of this. Working at home is not for everybody, but it works for me. Self-discipline, I guess. Good Luck to you. :^)
they call you if you don't work your schedule shift
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The only way I got my money is by sending him a letter from my attorney.
Essentially, all I did was go to a lawyers office and have them send the guy a letter of the amount owed otherwise face legal action and the guy sent me my pay. Callstreet will tell you that they will pay these great rates and then when you do the work and in the time frame they want, when you see what you are ACTUALLY being paid is SIGNIFICANTLY lower. This is an Indian guy who uses anyone he can get his hands on and then screw them out of hard earned money. They conference calls are brutal to get turned around in an extremely short period of time and then to get screwed out of the proper pay is a slap in the face. He does the same thing to services he uses overseas, too. I've seen posts on an Indian website about this guy cheating them out of pay, too.
I'm sure the attorney has time to "live on this board" like we do. nm
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Being a small MTSO myself, the second attorney is correct sm
Honestly, here in the Northeast, the courts will not uphold any noncompete clause written in that manner, signed or not signed.
If it affects your ability to make an income and provide for yourself, it will not hold up in a court of law in the great US of A.
My attorney told me that noncompete clauses
are illegal and not enforceable because one person cannot stop another person from making a living EVEN if you sign that noncompete agreement. I went through it with both a pharmaceutical company and a transcription company trying to prevent me from working for their clients or competitors. I can see their point as an independent contractor when it comes to offering the same services and essentially stealing their clients. However, as a former employee, nobody can tell me who I will or won't work for. The second attorney is correct, and I would follow his advice.
We all need to band together!!! And we DO need to contact an attorney. This has become CRIMINAL!
This is not legal!
You have to work 3 of the big 6 holidays. For those that you work, you are paid
time and a half. For those that you do not work, you can either get paid by using PTO or they are treated like normal days off (for which you are not paid). Sometimes, they will even pay double time for the big holidays if there is a lot of work on the system. I've found them to be exceedingly fair.
Ran out of work, they wouldn't return email or call...see msg
They wouldn't contact me back or answer my calls. Four days later they finally got back with me to tell me to be patient. I specifically asked when I took the position if running out of work was ever a problem.
Has anyone received their W2 from DeVenture? No longer work there and don't want to call them..nm
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I just do my work and when rumors crop up call and ask. Simple as that...
too much panic and speculation makes for an unproductive day.
Did anyone call about the STAT ortho work on the job board? Thanks. (nm)
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Hmmm but interesting....will the attorney actually be able to find out WHO is posting?
I thought this board was secure and identities were not revealed????
what kind of attorney did u all hire and in which state? What if u are spread
all over the US and there are like 8 that were not paid? Do we get an attorney in the same state as the loser who did not pay us? Or what is your advice there? What did u do? How much did it end up costing u? Plz reply via email if you want.
Does that mean that you work for MDI-FL and your paid 9.5 there?? Thanks
nm
I did some work for them and NEVER got paid
They are unreasonable, giving their editors 10+ accounts to be in charge of, and they, in turn, give the MTs the work to do. Therer are so few MTs that they get about 400 minutes to type each day. They dont pay but like 7 cpl if you're lucky, and they work you to death. They sonorq (like msn messenger) you to death too, and they just plain out lie about raises, etc. Like I said, they never paid me even.
Don't work for DIT if you want to get paid!
Two out of three paychecks have bounced so far. It seems they write checks with no money to cover them. I hereby take back all the nice things I had said about them being nice people to work for. Nice people do not bounce paychecks. Getting paid from them has been the worst experience I've ever had with any employer. I can't believe they bounce paychecks like they do. As of today, I'm done. This is a warning to others, don't let my experience be yours.
paid less for p.r.n. work
I'm feeling confused about why the MT business seems to pay less per line for p.r.n. work than part-time or full-time work. Out in the world where people do not stay at home, a premium is usually paid to temp services or to employees who agree to be available on a p.r.n. basis. Is it just my experience with certain companies? I would like to hear any thoughts on why this is true in this industry or if your experience has been different. I am beginning to feel dirty for asking for p.r.n. work.
Another day of no work. They must get paid
a lot to sell the Americans short on work.
Were you also not paid for the work you did?
If I'm tracking this thread correctly, that would make you MT #4 that worked but was not paid.
This is alarming, to say the least.
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