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UI work for an Indian IT company and am facing a situation where I’m being “double-billed.”
Here are the facts:
The Workload: For the last two months, I have been assigned to two different clients simultaneously.
The Hours: Because I am efficient, I am completing the work in about 9–12 hours daily, but my company requires me to log 8 hours for each client in the timesheets (Total: 16 hours/day).
The Pay: I am receiving my original single salary. There has been no additional compensation, overtime pay, or allowance for the extra client.
I was verbally told initially I will be paid for the new client as well and it will come as bonus component every month.
The Response: I’ve asked to be relieved from one client, but they haven’t taken action.
The Concern: My company is collecting two full-resource payments from the clients while I am overworking and potentially participating in what looks like billing fraud by logging 16 hours a day.
Questions:
Is this legal under Indian Labor Laws (Shops & Establishments Act)?
Am I at risk for signing off on 16-hour timesheets if an audit happens?
How can I leverage this to get the compensation I deserve or get rolled off one project immediately?
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CUnethical, but not illegal.
The billing contract is between the client and your employer.
Not with you.
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UEven this is illegal, clients ask for dedicated 8 hours which is not happening over here. If it is not in contract by client then their legal team is not strong enough.
While switching projects, I was asked not to mention that I am still supporting old client / new client to each of them because of contractual issues (old project was not ready to leave me right away while new project had to be kickstarted)
Instead, I was provided with a resource to help till the time I could complete the transition from the old project (~1 month).
We also have people across multiple projects officially and clients know about them and clients are charged according to time devoted by the employee to them. Usually, 50-50.
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ASee as long as company makes you work for 8 hour’s it’s completely okay for them. It shouldn’t matter to you how many clients work you are doing. But if they ask you to work more than 8 hours then the company is wrong for not providing overtime.
What you should do is push back and just work 8 hours strictly no need to put overtime, that’s only way you can make the company realise. And as always people say keep looking for other job when you don’t like things at current company. Also never work more than 8 hours for free.
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