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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would consider my personal responsibility in the matter-- do these individuals report to you, are you signing/reviewing timesheets, is there some other way that you should have known? For instance, in my previous job I approved travel reimbursement and I cross referenced the travel charges to the timesheet charges. (they better be charged the same project if they happened in the same timeframe!)

If any of this is yes, you should report immediately to cover yourself. If it's "no" and you went on a fishing expedition, I would be absolutely sure you are correct prior to reporting it to IG. I would in either case, but especially if I'm reporting without any direct connection/responsibility. In the second case, you could just consider finding another job or ignoring the situation since you have suspicions but no real proof. It's unethical but a route that most people would take whether they think so or not. Being a whistleblower is hard. [/quote]

pp here again--  Not sure why your organization is tracking by time of day. The way I saw time cards for Federal work was amount of time and corresponding project number up to eight hours. The way we handled the fact that most people work more than eight hours was proration - 16 hours (working four hours each on 4 projects) was 2, 2, 2, 2. I was at a university though- and we couldn't add more than 8 hours a day to a timesheet even though we were exempt from OT.

Maybe in your organization all the hours worked in a day are charged, but your time sheet isn't set up for 12 hour days -the only way to show the amount of time worked on each project is to overlap. Maybe the employee worked 7-7. It seems implausible, but possible. Some university researchers routinely worked 12 hours. I'm just brainstorming because I hate starting with the premise that people are cheating.    [/quote]

If you're working salary, you definitely cannot claim more than 40 hours a week (even if you work it).  If you do, you'll be overbilling.  [/quote]

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