I am currently on paid leave from a large NJ company due to an inconsistency in documents being reviewed by our internal QA audit group. The documents in question were requested by our QA group in the beginning of September of this year. After the paper work was turned over to the QA group, an outside government agency began an inspection of the facility. The agency requested to review the same documents that the QA group previously requested. I was asked to obtain these documents. I did so, and as I was gathering them from the QA group auditor, it was suggested that I place the documents in a binder for better appearance. I did as the auditor suggested and then delivered the documents to the agency inspectors.
After the agency completed the inspection, the project documents were returned to the QA group auditor in oder to complete the internal audit. I know this is long but all relevant. Apparently, when the documents were first collected by the QA group, a copy of the documents was made for training purposes. When the originals were returned after the agency inspection, my signature was now on the bottom of pages that were not on the copies made for the training. It is being considered that while I had the documents in my possession, I signed and back dated the originals. This is not the case. During my interview about the above, I failed to ask if the QA group dates the copies as to when they were made. If the QA group did not document when those copies were made can they fire me for back dating? I do not have proof that I did not backdate and I have no proof that I signed on the day they are dated.

