If you are being exploited, you need to collect as much evidence as you can.
Here are some tips on how to collect evidence:
- Keep your own record of the hours you work (a work diary). You could take a photo of this each week and send that photo to yourself through WhatsApp (or another platform). This will have a time and date stamp on it and prove that you created the record at that time.
- If you can, take videos of you working late or longer than the hours on your payslips.
- Take selfies at work at times when your employer says you aren’t working. Your phone will create a date and time stamp.
- Turn on location services on your phone so it can record your location. You may be able to download this to show the hours you worked. This might be useful if your employer is making you work for more hours than they are paying you, or if you are not paid for working on a public holiday.
- Keep any WhatsApp, WeChat, or Zalo messages with your employer about your employment, rosters, or start and finish times.
- Ask your cellphone provider to give you the cell tower data for a certain time period. This may show you were at work during times that your employer denies you were working.
