"Bob Dole" wrote in message
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If the place where I work is telling me to work hour's for free, what
should I do ?

Depends on what you are being asked to do and what you agreed to do when you
took the job. There is ample precedent of the courts awarding back pay and
benefits to employees treated in a way other than the employer claimed they
would be treated, but you'd have to be able to show that disparity in
detail.

If you don't like the deal, your best bet is to just find a different
employer. Make sure the next job you get has a clear contract stipulating
what you will do and what you'll receive for that work. Court cases drag on
forever, and usually it's the lawyers who wind up getting the most money out
of them.

In any case, I don't see how you can call it "slavery". You are free to
leave, right?

I am worried that working for free is illegal, immoral, unethical, and
unprofessional,

Working for free is none of those things. Being *forced* to work for free
is probably all of those things, but it's not clear to me that that's what's
going on in your case. Are they threatening you or someone you know with
bodily harm? Extorting you? I'm guessing not.

and I am also worried that it exposes me to the possibility
of an IRS audit as I could be accused of getting paid "under the table"
(tax evasion etc.).

For the IRS to prove tax evasion, they'd have to prove you received taxable
income you didn't report. Since you're not receiving taxable income for the
work you're not getting paid for, they wouldn't be able to do that.

Pete