Posted on 03/29/2020 3:33:55 AM PDT by Libloather
A company in Austin, Texas is looking to dock pay from workers who receive government stimulus checks, according to an anonymous employee.
With the historic $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus deal signed, Americans can look forward to receiving some economic relief during the pandemic.
An unnamed company in Texas, though, appears to be looking to use the stimulus to relieve their payroll strain.
On Wednesday, the company sent out a form titled “Employee Acknowledgement of ‘Government Assistance’ Pay Reduction.”
The form was reported by an employee who wished to remain anonymous, but the employee spoke to local news KXAN about the situation.
“The form says they are preemptively deducting funds from our paychecks. That number is based on what they’re anticipating the government relief fund to be,” the worker told the outlet.
“The company that I work for is a national company and they make hundreds of millions of dollars in profit a year and instead of making sacrifices at the higher levels, they’re passing it on down to everybody else.”
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Alberta’s Child wrote: “The confidentiality of a Federal tax return is protected by law. Isn’t that what President Trump has been saying for years? And yet you’re telling me my employer can force me to show it to him in order to get paid what he has already agreed to pay me?”
I’m not defending this company. I think they would argue that your disclosure was made voluntarily to receive additional money.
I agree with your belief this whole story is bull.
I guess the question involves what exactly the “additional money” is. If the business is furloughing staff temporarily but paying them anyway, then I guess they can do this however they want. In fact, it might even make sense for them to be smart about it and really just give their staff what they need so they can carry more employees for a longer period of time.
Fake.
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