I recently started working for a couple who owns their own cleaning business. This job is the perfect fit for me, and I'm supposed to be making more than I was at my previous job. When I applied, and when I interviewed, I was told that I would be making $18.00 an hour. They use an app called Homebase to keep track of scheduling and payments. This app confirms that I am supposed to be making $18.00/hour. However, they have been paying me $12.00 for every hour that I work. For example...today, I cleaned a house from 12:00PM until 4:00 PM. I was paid $50, and told that I owe them $12 because I only worked 3 hours. (They were there, cleaning the house with me, and the hours/correct pay were posted on Homebase.) According to Homebase, I was supposed to have been paid $72. Upon hiring me, they told me that I would have to fill out a 1099-MISC form. However, they told me that, once they give me the form, I should just throw it away and not file. On Homebase, my supposed earnings for the past 3 days were $372.78. I was paid $232, plus $40 for gas for the 2 and a half hour drive to a corporate job site.
Things are not adding up. I am confused about the tax situation. I don't know how to go about speaking with my employers about this problem. Please give me advice.
Side note: I use Google Sheets to keep track of every date, time, and location that I work, as well as the payments I am given. They pay in the form of cash.
Edit: Addition to side note.
Submitted November 23, 2019 at 06:26PM by ThisGirlLovesThatGuy https://ift.tt/2KP7X9x
