labor board only helps if you are

• Note to any MTSO who does not pay on time SM - Mrs. Webber
  • I agree completely! - Debbie
    • nonpayment - anon.
      • Two words. LABOR BOARD. - N/M
        • labor board only helps if you are - an employee. Do ur research
          • Well, then THREE WORDS: - "SMALL - CLAIMS - COURT"
            • hahah THEY DONT SHOW UP - i got ripped
              • How to get your money sm - Patrice
      • Dear Anon - Yasmin

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Will the Labor Board listen to you if you are an unpaid IC or is this organization only for employees? 

Is it possible to retain anonymity so that the company you contract with does not retaliate?

Could some one tell me how to go about contacting the labor board about an issue with my employer?  Since I am a remote MT do I contact the labor board in my state or the state my employer is based?  This has to do with pay that I believe was deliberately shorted out of my paycheck as a retribution because I did not type reports on my secondary account that were approaching TAT when I was contacted about it by instant messenger an hour after my shift was over.  I wasn't even at my desk an hour after my shift was over.  I also found out a couple days after the fact that an email from my account manager's supervisor was sent to an email account I no longer use stating that I was requested by my AM to type some reports so they don't go out of TAT and would I please log on and complete these reports. 

Now, lo and behold, my paycheck will be short by almost 800 lines because these 800 lines supposedly sat in QA and weren't completed by the time the pay period ended, even though my shift ended at 4 p.m. on the last day of the pay period.  I have worked for this company for a whole year and this is the first time I have ever heard that the MT is not credited the lines produced until cleared by QA...and I'm not even on 100% QA.  Furthermore, I can't see how I would have even SENT 800 lines to QA in a day.  After multiple emails to both my AM and her supervisor requesting some sort of documentation where these lines went to, I still have heard nothing in regards to this and I'm fed up.  Is this something the labor board will even handle?

I work for an MTSO that lies about when paychecks are sent out.  We are paid twice a month, on the 15 and the 30 or 31.  When the owner of the company was on vacation, I got my paycheck on time.  Ever since this individual came back, it's the same old s##T all over again. I have heard that this person holds checks until the last minute and it takes around 10 days to get paycheck in hand.  This person blames it on the post office being the worst in the world.  Well, how come during the most busiest time of the year, I got paid on time, when the post offices notoriously are supposed to be slower?  I called the post office over there and was told that I should report this company to the labor board, only how do I do it and retain anonymity?  Any ideas?  I don't want to lose this job YET!  I have something else in the works, but not just yet.  I realize this will probably be hard to prove, too.

Perhaps you know of someone yourself or had this experience yourself that you might be able to share and give some advice.

Regardless of all the bull dished out by the MTSO companies, especially as it pertains to VR, i.e., We're cutting your pay 50%, so you'll have to work twice as hard - but you're going to LOVE the platform.  Also get tired of hearing about Learning Curve and wonder if my grocer, landlord & hungry kids understand this learning curve concept. 

However (and the MTSOs can like this or lump it) WE MUST BE PAID FEDERALLY-MANDATED MINIMUM WAGE for workers with employee status - whether straight typing, VR or being required to babysit computer during no/low work.  Of course, it's exploitation to cut wages in half from an already insultingly low rate & most MTs are surely feeling the pinch.  But whether 2, 3, 4 or 10 cpl ... minimum wage must be paid.  (Sorry Suits/MTSOs - the law is there for a reason!)

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. 

Here is what I do, go into START, control panel, add or remove programs, and do that part.  Then, I go to My Computer, C Drive, Programs (and delete out any remnants).  You will also still need to definitely take it out of the main part of your computer which is REGEDIT.  To do that is very easy, I do it all the time with NO problem, learned it off my computer guy, actually. 

START, RUN, type in regedit, OK.  On left side in regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL _MACHINE, Software, and then just right click on the software name and it will allow you to delete it with a question screen asking if you are sure you want to do so.  If you know the exact name of the program or even the exact name of the file it was in, you are safe doing this.  You would also need to check in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and just do the same procedure over again.    Hope this helps you.  It looks complicated, but is not.

when I say that I get those double letters, maybe that is when I open my SC after loading my program.  I have no idea!  I've never noticed.  It's just not a consistent problem, and even when I get the double letters, it's not on every expansion that I'm using, just kinda hit-and-miss.  But maybe this is what the problem is! 

Anyway, I hope you get your problem sorted out.  When you reinstill, your .sc dictionaries (or whatever they are called) will just be right there waiting on you.  That is how it was when I got my update.  Good luck, and thanks to you, too.  :)