False Attendance To Union Leaders

I am working as a section in-charge in a PSU.I am asked by my boss to regularly mark the attendance of one of the top union leaders(who never attends the duty).This has been going on for last 1 year.Am I inviting trouble from CBI or other investigating agency?If I refuse,I will spoil the relation with my boss and the union leader.what can I do?

Dear reik

Welcome to CiteHR.com.

I can understand your predicament, but I do not understand how you could be inviting trouble from CBI or other investigating agency - you should have come up with your specific apprehensions.

I also understand that your boss has delegated this task to you as he does not wants to annoy the union leader.

In your section/department, how do you make attendance ?
Since you have been asked to "mark" it, I reckon it must be in an "Attendance Register" and employees are asked to put their initials everyday of attendance.

Is the Attendance Register meant for your specific section, or the whole deptt./organization ?
In general, how many employees 'sign' it everyday ?
Where is the Attendance Register placed everyday (for making attendance) ?
Is it moved everyday, once the employees have made their attendance (say, after an hour of reporting time) ?

At the end of the month, who sends the attendance data to Finance - Actts./wages/salary deptt. ?
Under whose signature, the data is sent ?

I shall be able to suggest further, when you provide answers to these queries.

Warm regards.

Dear Sir,

Thanks for the response

Yes, what you assumed is right that my boss doesn’t want to spoil the relation with the union leader. I am also involving my subordinates in this which is hurting me more.

Now regarding the queries

There are around 120 employees working under me including 10 supervisors, distributed in 3 shifts (50 each in first &second shift and 20 in night shift, such that 30 employees rotates only in first and second shift).

There are separate attendance registers for each shift. The attendance of the employees of each shift is marked by any of the shift supervisors as ‘P’ for present or ‘A’ for absent and the register is kept on a table with other registers such as work allotment register, overtime register etc which is open for inspection by any person.

At the end of the month attendance data is prepared and signed by a clerk, then checked and counter signed by me before sending it to wage section.

Each and every employee knows that false attendance of union leader is being marked, but nobody dare to question.

I know this is a corrupt practice as I am working in a PSU.If anybody asks some questions through RTI regarding the attendance or make a complaint to some investigating agency; I fear that I will be in trouble.

With regards
reik

Dear reik

The situation is tricky, as you do not have the system of attendance register being signed by the employees. You can insist on implementation of this system, as I believe all employees are literate enough to sign and have bank accounts for salary remittance.

Else, you stick to the truthful way of showing the true attendance of that person. I hope, the Shift Supervisor is making correct entry against the name of the employees. You can forward the monthly attendance data through your boss. In case you are asked to prepare a falsified data, then you can refuse to sign it and ask your boss to send it through his signature.

There are times when one has to 'take the bull by the horn' and refuse to do anything illegal or immoral; and this is one such situation.

Also remember, you can be in a serious problem, due to the fact that the Shift supervisor is showing the person absent - A; and your attendance data reflects otherwise. What happens if you certify his attendance without his presence on the work-spot, and come to know later that he has been involved in an accident or a crime ?

Do keep us posted on the developments.
Warm regards.

Dear Reik,
I cant say more than what Raj Kumar has already said.
A supervisor cannot be too good to favour an employee at the expense of his own job and career.
Dont allow yourself to be used as a guinea pig.
Your throughness and integrity of actions and purpose is your only way out of this your imbroglio.
--Yemi

If you get another better job then go for it....else close your eyes, ears and mouth on the issue bcoz its not only the case of your company but the country itself where everything happens in such fashion only....Nobody cares for thruth except for praising in hindsight.....the advice of being so-called "BRAVE" & "COURAGEOUS" doesnt yeild results in a country like ours.....pick up today's newspaper or just look into the sorry state of affairs of our country and you would not mind paying a small little union leader of your company free wages on approval from your boss....our politicians and beaureaucrats gobble up thousands of crores and our IT Dept sits on those files hatching eggs......so go with the flow and enjoy your job.........Truth is always bitter so take it with a pinch of salt............rgrds