<prompt> Human: I would hope this would fit under the Personal Finance Subreddit since it has to do with my personal finances. As of today, I have gathered some evidence and I am going into work later to retrieve more, but I am without a doubt sure that some of my, and my coworkers time punches have been edited at work to short us on hours. When I clock into work, it lets me know that my hours have been edited, but it is extremely difficult to log into the system and figure out what was edited. Even though everything could easily go through 1 site, they instead have us go through about 6 sites. So I have been suspicious, but honestly too busy at work right away to remember to askdo anything about it...until now.What made me look into it was that I had worked some extra time on Memorial day we got paid time and a half because a customer wouldnt let me leave the store until they finished their order. The next day when I came in, it said Your time card has been edited. So I logged into one of the 2 sites I can look into the hours yes there are 2 different sites to check what is going on with my hours, both requiring different usernames and passwords. It showed that I have been getting shorted about 5-10 hours per week for the past 2 months. As I am looking at this, by pure coincidence, a coworker called me up and said they had shorted him by 13 hours, and didnt pay him at all for his drive time he does on-sites. So Right now were both going in, sort of incognito, to one of the other managers only one guy has access to change anything, the guy who controls the hours to retrieve the additional information we need. The actual edits of the punches. I am not entirely sure what it will have, but I will be seeking what the original hours were and what they have been edited to on what days.This being said, I would like to throw out that I NEVER call into work because i need the money that bad to pay all my bills. I also show up a little early, and almost always have to stay late. So a lot of the time I go beyond the required time that were allotted to be there, giving the manager motive to change the punches, even though the hours have been worked, and he forces us to work them even if we are trying to leave when our shift is up.Back in January, the company I work for decided to cut everyone from full time down to part time to avoid having to pay for Obamacare health benefits in some sort of corporate retaliation to the new bill. Many companies followed. This company has quite the history of screwing over employees, even though it doesnt get vocalized very much since they are a multi-billion dollar giant.I dont even know where to begin with how to deal with this.I dont want to ask for legal advice or anything like that, I just need to know what my options are. If it comes down to it, I will get a lawyer, but if I can skip that, I will.Questions-What should I dohow much evidence do I need?When I gather the evidence, do I approach the manager, higher corporate, Better Business Bureau or a lawyer?If you have something similar that happened, please share the experience in as much detail as possible not looking to know know what company it was and your experience. What roadblocks did you confront? What were the results?I noted only 1 coworker but as least 2 more have come out and noticed certain things too, totaling 4 of us who are now questioning everything that has been going on for the past few months.Thank you and I appreciate the feedback in this stressful time. And please, for the sake of the sensitivity of the situation, please dont try and find what company I work for. Trust me, If this proves to be an ongoing thing, I will be more than happy to come back and let everyone know which company it is, and it would just be really appreciated.Edit: My questions have bee answered about what I could do. There is another situation though that additional questions need to be asked, however.-Just an update, I looked into it, the history is vague. A lot of it isnt updated on paper and a lot of it is extremely hard to access. I have been able to access about 2 weeks prior and there are a few days I know for a fact have been edited. It turns out that they made it seem like the previous days would have been edited, but they actually edited days before as if I were checking the day before, I wouldnt notice. Mainly it has been edited to look like I am 5 minutes late every day, so it really looks like a fail safe, in case I need to be fired, it looks like I am always late by exactly 5 minutes. I actually show up and clock in 10-5 minutes early. One day in specific has proven that it has been edited. I showed up half an hour early, on the dot, it shows I am 5 minutes late. I remember because this was intentional, not to screw them on the hours, in fact to help them because out of the 13 hours that were available that day, I was the only person in my department that day. I showed up because no one else even remotely knows how to do what I do. Its ultra specific. But the problem is that the information I needed isnt showing; the actual edit times from and to. So I will dig deeper. Does anyone know if they legally need to keep those certain records? I would assume they would need to keep it at least 5 years by law I run into that for business purposes, so I know legally most companies need to keep everything as record. I want to call in and ask for the info, but I do not want to be alarming. Maybe I can some what bluff my way into it, if there are no other options of course. But I doubt I would be able to do it for long unless I was extremely lucky. Wouldnt that be something they would legally have to keep record of?  <response>: Plaintiff-side employment and labor lawyer here. This is what you need to do.Go to Do it today. You want your lawyer to be a nela member because all the lawyers who take representing employees seriously are members. If you have evidence of wage theft, especially if it reduces overtime pay, your case has positive value for the attorney you select. That means you should be able to select a lawyer youre comfortable with. If you can afford to pay hourly you probably cant then you may end up with more in the end.As for going to DOL, meh. Maybe. Let your lawyer discuss it with you. And dont discuss this with anyone, ANYONE, in the meantime.Oh yeah, tell your lawyer about this reddit post. Its evidence and you must disclose it. To. The other side when the time comes. 