now, how does one "force" someone to work off the clock?
is it a case of she punched out and the manager asked ehr to do something not realisd that she was punched out?
or was she maybe a slacker like some of the kids i've had to work with that didn't bother to do her job while on the clock and the manager, like most managers everywhere wasn't going to pay her to not work?
or is she like me and occasionally gets right to work and forgets to punch in?
i'd like to know alot more of the details of this.
I can't speak to the facts of this case, but I can tell you what happened to me back in the early 80s when I worked at a Monkey Wards around Christmas one year. Due to increased help that was hired, the manager's expenses at the store were up. So he told people that they would be expected to work off the clock, because there would be no overtime pay, which automatically kicked in after 40 hours a week, for those of us who were full time workers. The manager actually timed everyone out (all the floor employees were hourly, myself included), and we were expected to clean and restock the disaster that was the toy department as well as our own departments, and it wan't unusual to have to stay for nearly 2 hours.
You ask how we were "forced?" Well, we were given a choice. "Do it my way, or the highway." We were told that if we didn't do what he wanted, and work the extra hours at no pay, we'd be fired, and given bad references. Back then, nobody thought about suing or anything like that. A few people did refuse to work, and they were fired on the spot and told to get out. And knowing some of the people, I was told that they were given VERY bad references by the manager, and had trouble getting another job.
Mark