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Unfair disaplinary - fraud

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Agrestic · 30/05/2014 01:31

I have been accused of leaving work at 9.30 on four occasions but putting 10pm down on my time sheet thus fraudulently claiming wages.

Today I was taken into a investigatory meeting where notes were taken. I had no idea what was happening or what it was about before going in.

Every week I write down my shift times 2.30-10pm. Most evenings I leave at 10, some days I leave later, some days I do leave earlier. I never put the exact time as it works itself out. My colleagues do the same. We all work alone while on shift.

Part of my responsibilies is to reconcile accounts with a partner company. The gentleman responsible for doing them with me is awful. His time management is terrible and he is generally an unreliable, defensive, petty character. He says he will come over at 6pm to do the accounts but won't show up. This can go on for weeks. If he does show up it will be at the most inappropriate times (9pm) where it's not possible for me go through the paperwork. i have raised the issue in meetings and I always get 'I will try harder' 'I'm sorry but I'm busy' 'I came but you were busy' the latter is because he has come after 9pm!

We are currently FOUR weeks behind due to him not coming to do them.

He has complained to my manager that I will not do them after 9pm because I leave at 9.30, not 10pm.

My manager looked at our cctv, it shows me leaving at roughly 8.30pm each day. The time on the cctv is wrong, it is 1 hour and 24 minutes slow. My manager has assumed it's only an hour slow and has started disalinary action because it looks like I have been leaving early when I haven't.

I can prove that the time is wrong but I am really upset. He is trying to pass the blame over the accounts to me and my manager has believed him.

I have a disaplinary hearing on Wednesday. What do I do?

Sorry for the essay. I'm dyslexic and on my phone so apologies for the hideous spelling.

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kiwimumof2boys · 30/05/2014 11:05

Gosh that sounds awful. Is there any way you can definitely prove the CCTV is 1 hr 24min slow ?
Do you logon/off computer or use security cards to access building ? they should both have your leaving times on.
Can't really help with anything else sorry. Hopefully someone else on here can. Good luck.

GetYourFingersOutOfThere · 30/05/2014 23:54

You should have received a letter inviting you to the first meeting you have had, off the top of my head you should have been given 24 or 48 hours notice and the letter should have offered you to bring a collegue with you for support.

Can you definatly prove the CCTV is wrong?

Think back and see if you have any way to prove the time you left via emails etc.

Can you also make a log for the last week or more of how many times this peson has let you down or not arrived on time, this should help.

Just writing 2.30 - 10pm in the hope that it works it's self out wil not help you now and you should probably start by saying you know this is not the best way to log working hours but it is the system many/all use and moving forward you will record true hours worked, you never know, you may end up with some hours owed!

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