CEO asks employees to lie on timecards or risk job losses

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29 points·colinprince··4 comments

Assuming the company has to pay the employees for their vacation time I don’t see how this saves the employer a significant amount of money in any situation other than paying out vacation during a mass lay-off.

Am I missing something?

It does seem weird.

Maybe in Canada the vacation pay needs to be put aside in an account as time off is accrued? If this was the case they might be being paid out of cash that is on-hand and reserved for vacation payments. The company would be getting five days of work out of an employee, paying them five days, but 20% of that money might be coming out of cash already stocked for paying vacation time out.

How can a CEO think that this wouldn't become public? This is basically tax fraud as you are paying less tax when the employee takes holidays or sick leave.

Shouldn't he be charged with something more seariously than breaking employment laws? He is basically asking a lot of people to enable him to commit tax fraud.

I see that they tried reducing the management salary by 20% to give the impression that they did something and they're in the same boat. It should have been a lot more if they were genuine.

It is very important for every company to give proper leave, if the companies get strict over leaves, the productivity of the employees reaches the lowest and they also get less creative at their work. It is important for the CEO to be little lenient and the company should be more of employee friendly to get better results.

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