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The Economic Times
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Employee has to work on a holiday, but when HR claims she can't get paid overtime, the boss has a clever suggestion

Most of us have been there before: you come in to work on a day when the rest of the country is off, and you expect to be compensated fairly for it. For one hourly employee at a big company, that expectation became a weeks-long headache involving a broken payroll system, a confused HR team, and a boss who quietly handed her the perfect workaround.

This story, posted on Reddit, is both infuriating and relatable and a reminder that knowing your rights at work isn’t just handy; it’s essential.

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