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Payroll Question

Posted By: Jen on 2008-12-26
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Out of curiosity, I am asking for input.  At Focus/Nuance MTs are ORDERED to show up for their shift or they are fired.  Many show up for work every day, no work is available.  The manager won't give them additional work/more lines so they sit for 4-8 hours with MAYBE 300 lines a day.  Is it legal to do that without paying some kind of hourly wage?  Other companies I know will pay $10 an hour as "compensation" for the time you wasted since there were no lines available.  Is it legal to ORDER someone to go to work and then not pay them?  If it is illegal, where can MTs go to report this?


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Or just relax.... you will get them :)


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It's not just during the week of payroll. SM
Also, sending e-mails and expecting a reply is not as you put it bothering them. It's a normal part of business.
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I am newly hired, old company being outsourced to Spheris, and I forgot to ask if they offer direct deposit.  Any idea on this.. Thanks.. So glad to be with this company.  The comments about TT are almost too good to be true... and I can't wait for the computer to get here.


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To Current-MDIer... as Liz says -- put the ULD on your next payroll....
Pretty easy to get things solved, huh? It's amazing what happens when you just ask....
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After waiting more than 12 days for my paycheck it finally came.  After being burned with an NSF paycheck last time, I called their bank to verify that the funds were available and, of course, they weren't. 


I hope that everyone will have the sense to stay away from that company and that the poor MTs who haven't left yet can get out as quickly as possible, so they don't take the hit, too. 


I can't believe that they are allowed to continue to operate and do this to their MTs on a regular basis.  Paying your people on time with valid checks should be your number one priority and is the most basic principle in running your so-called business!


Thanks so much - I had been told by payroll a month or so ago

that change of status could take place on Nov. 1. Guess that changed since I had talked with her.


Thanks again for your willingness to inform us who have not received any info as of yet.


S.O.S.D.D. I left during last payroll period!
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Isn't Meridian a payroll company?
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With the payroll problems they've been having lately and
the fact they didn't offer any of the SR people typing jobs probably means they aren't doing so good financially. 
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work a week off payroll?? PLZ sm

Yas know what, there are probably a lot of  valid complaints here on the board but is really of no value unless the name of the company is shared.  What good does it really do, no one else can be alerted and informed to make future decisions. Change can perhaps be implented on the other side when as isolated MTs can learn the fact and not be taken in (because the info is shared from which decisions can be made.. 


I have taken to sending an email (at times with the resume but also without) and ask if they would mind sharing the highest to the lowest line rate offered for the position as --I mention (to them)  this would save valuable time on BOTH sides.


I have also taken to asking if this position is for VR. (cuz I'm not doin it) 


This gives a better playing field as I don't want to spend all that time on testing on 7 files, going through an interview to find some ridiculous offer I would have never considered had I known up front.


I think the JOB OFFER BOARD here should have all the facts listed up front.  


TO: NewerTT'r -- you obviously are a new TT'r, as you know nothing about that payroll change

The payroll company change DID NOT occur 2 years ago !!!!!  You were obviously NOT there when this change occurred.  You are talking about your new-hire paperwork when YOU were hired on with TT. 


The change occurred in April 2008 when we were required to send 2 different timesheets, due to 2 payroll companies covering that time period.  You think that was not a RUSH!


You were not employed with TT then, I can assure you.  You are too much in the dark about everything.


If you'll call Robert in payroll....sm

he'll explain it to you.  He's at extension 231. 


They asked about MDI- not Transcend -- different payroll, different bennies....
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Some "real" MTs on payroll to act as consultants/advisors will
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Not for one payroll period. No company is that rotten and
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Why not call the corporate office / payroll? nm
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Has payroll come in-house already? They said they would notify us when this happaned.
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I think they are taking payroll in house, but outsourcing this sm

YOU try processing paperwork for 300+ MTs!  I could not do it all right. 


I THINK payroll is going inhouse, which should be okay.  It is this other insurance stuff that is going out.  I could be wrong, but...


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You certainly have the right to ask questions, especially if something is different than you expected on your paycheck.
The payroll dept isn't exactly qualified. There's no accountant on staff. sm
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They play good game of being KGB, screw up more than anyone else in the company, but never get in trouble, just keep compounding their mistakes. The wondeful programs to keep track of us never work right, but they are so nasty to us that no one wants to work for them.   Why is management so blind?
Any company not meeting payroll on time is not worth it.
I wouldn't wait around. There is no excuse for them not to meeting payroll once, much less twice.

If you are speaking of this week at TT, they are working on payroll which is MORE Important to me

I love to leave them alone on pay week, especially, as I really enjoy always getting my paycheck on time !


I dont seem to bother them at all, tho.  No need to.


Is Transtech payroll being done in-house now? My DD is not showing up yet today and it always is.

I know payday is Monday, but mine has always shown up at my bank today.  I hope they don't start delaying our paychecks because it is being done inhouse instead of being outsourced.  


Anybody else see their's in bank yet?


Questions about payroll, et cetera should be brought up to your leads...
not to the board...If this was strictly a Keystrokes board, then I would understand but it isn't. I have been there for over 2 years...Please don't feel like I am bashing you or anything. I just think it is inappropriate to bring up payroll questions on a public board.
Does DQS track your time for payroll, or do we fill in our own timesheet on-line? nm
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you fill out a manual report and email to payroll at end of pay period.
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Mine does not post until 11pm the night of payroll. It is the bank. sm
I have talked to others and some post the night before, some by morning, some by noon. Mine is the worst I have heard of, but it is the way everything posts with my bank. It is one of the largest banks in the world too!
Major attitude issue at office payroll division...nm