Dallas, TX asked in Employment Law for Texas

Q: What can I do about my employer deleting hours I have worked?

I have discovered that my current employer is altering/deducting hours from my time card. For hours that I did indeed work. Sometimes it is just 30 min here, or an hour there. But this last week, they deleted almost 6 1/2 hours from one day.

We do not get check stubs. What can I do?

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A: The situation as you've described it sounds like a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, particularly if you are paid by the hour and your employer's deductions result in a loss of overtime hours worked. How did you find out about this? Are you allowed to ask for your clock-in and clock-out records? To the extent you have access to documentation regarding your hours worked, ask for it and keep it. You should also independently track your shift start and stop times to ensure you have an accurate record of how much you work.

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