My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: New Jersey
I am a salaried (exempt) employee for a company that almost exclusively works on Department of Defense government contracts.
Each day are required to record our hours worked on these various government contracts. (Typically down to 15 minute intervals.) We are required to use the charge number for the government contract we are working on.
We have been told to “Charge what you are working on”.
Once a week, the employees (like me) gather for an internal marketing meeting to see what new business opportunities are available. These meeting are called for and headed by management.
We discuss proposals, marketing trips, and ways to land new contracts. We meet for about an hour (10-11) and there are 15 of us who meet. (2 are management and 13 are workers like me)
I have asked management (numerous times) for a charge number for these meetings. Their response has always been “There is no charge number”.
All of the employees have been charging 8 hours on their time card for the days when we have these marking meetings. These 8 hours are divided among various government contracts but the 1 hour spent for the marketing meeting is not recorded anywhere on the timecard.
I always work after hours during the week to ensure that the hours charged to the government contracts that week are accurate and true.
Management reviews and approves our timecards every week. So management is keenly aware that these marketing meeting are not being recorded on our timecards.
A few questions:
Is not recording a marketing meeting, on a timecard, illegal?
Isn’t this marketing meeting an overhead expense and should be recorded as such?
What specific law/regulation is being violated?
What should I do?

