Check Stubs - Govt Shutdown

[Snaggletooth]

It has been established that the W-2 will not show overtime for 2025, and we are thus at the mercy of the employer to figure it out. What if a check stub shows 180 hours paid in one week? Not likely that the work actually occurred, but it would be possible to actually pay someone if he (she) worked during the government shutdown for several weeks without pay, then got paid for all these hours in a lump sum when the govt shutdown stopped.

I'm sure this occurrence of OT was unintended in the Big Beautiful Bill, but someone could interpret such a check stub with sadistic glee...

[Lion]

The employers (only employers) are exempt from any penalties for reporting tips and overtime for 2025. We are NOT at their mercy. They do NOT have to do anything. Supposedly employees must make a good-faith effort to report their compensation correctly; but that usually means they dump it on us. WE are the ones who need mercy! Thank goodness I have few clients with either OT or tips (and my one with tips may have been underreporting tips to me all along, but not that I can see for sure). I'm raising prices.