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Admin Deducted Compensatory Time

Location: Kentucky, USA

I am a salaried employee and do not receive overtime pay. In place of overtime pay, we get comp time. One week, I worked about 43 hours due to being shortstaffed and on one of those days I chose not to take a lunch break to get my work done so I could leave on time. When I received my time sheet the following week, I saw that half an hour had been deducted and “no lunch” notated next to that day. I asked the person in charge of the time clock/payroll what that was about, thinking maybe she thought I forgot to clock out for lunch, and she told me that since I worked more than 40 hours that week, she needed to deduct that 30 minutes to prevent an excess of comp time from accruing and that if I had worked less than 40 hours that week, I would’ve gotten to keep it. I told her that I did in fact work through that entire day, but I still lost those 30 minutes. I know it’s only 30 minutes, but it’s the principle.

A surface level google search told me that that’s probably not legal, but I’m a scientist not a legal professional. So I guess the big question here is is them deducting my earned comp time even legal? My partner wants me to report them to the proper agency, but I want to make sure that I’m interpreting what I’ve read correctly before I do.

Thanks for the input and sorry if this seems silly, this is my first full time job post grad so I’ve never had to navigate something like this.

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