<prompt> Human: My wife started a new job a month ago. Recently she sent in her timesheet to her manager and she was told to cut 6.5 hours out because it was messing up her productivity numbers. Shes an hourly employee and this will short her check about 100 dollars. Is this even legal? What should we do here? Indiana, USASorry if this doesnt belong here. Edit 1. Some answers to questions. She has this directive in an email. The reason they want her to dump hours is because it makes productivity look bad. This is a small company that is contracted by DCS. She has no control over who her clients are and the amount she is with them vs travel time. Her pay check is generated from timesheets.Edit 2. Rip inbox. Ill have my wife go through these this evening and respond to many of you.Assistant: Department of labor would love to hear about this. Human: Thats one of the things we were curious about.  <response>: Im not sure how her company is set up, but here are my two cents. At my work when I first started I had to bill some of my hours to training and not to the client because it wasnt fair to bill them 6 hours of work for something that should only take 2 hours. Id still get my full amount of hours paid, just it would come from my company as part of their designated overhead costs.So, Id suggest having your wife tell them shed put the 6.5 hours under training and then her company itself will pay her. This could possibly be what her boss meant, he could of just been unclear about it. Hope this helps! 