A Canadian must now repay a huge sum to her ex-employer. The company’s telecommuting tracking software spotted that the woman breached her contract and was paid for work not done.
Our habits have changed enormously since the pandemic. Particularly at the level of the global economy with the adoption of telework for many companies. Some therefore use software to count the working time of employees at home. The case of the day is related to this practice since a Canadian, Karlee Besse, is ordered to reimburse her former employer. The reason ? She has logged over 50 hours recorded in the company’s software which ” did not appear to have been spent on work-related tasks “.
Anomalies according to the TimeCamp software
Karlee Besse was telecommuting as an accountant in British Columbia. The Canadian first claimed she was fired without cause last year asking for the equivalent of 3700 dollars compensation. A sum to cover unpaid wages and severance pay. But the company in question, Reach CPA, believes that its ex-employee “ did not appear to have been spent on work-related tasks “.
Reach CPA says employee tracking software, called TimeCamp, found that records assigned to it were over budget and behind schedule. In a nutshell, the software tracks how long a document is open and how long it is used to record the time spent by the employee.
The company says an analysis has “ identified discrepancies between his timesheets and software usage logs “. Reach CPA has demonstrated that TimeCamp knows how to distinguish between work time and leisure activities like streaming or gaming!
In her defense, Karlee Besse explains that she printed documents to work without telling her ex-employer because she “ knew they wouldn’t hear it and that she feared the consequences. Reach CPA counters by stating that TimeCamp tracks impressions and paper work time can be entered in the softwarewhich has never been done.
Sentenced to compensate her ex-employer
Faced with these anomalies, Karlee Besse admits that she has ” attributed time to files that I hadn’t touched and that weren’t correct or appropriate in any way, I’m so sorry about that “.
The court therefore rejected his complaint for unfair dismissal. and asks him to pay approximately 2460 Canadian dollars in returned wages (in addition to an advance received by his ex-employer).
