C’mon Deloitte, time to pay up

A Counting School has the full details of three out of the Big Four finally poneying up for overtime they’ve illegally witheld from non-CA staff in Canada – those outside of skinflint Quebec that is. The only firm conspicuous by its absence is Deloitte? Why? You can’t tell me that they’ve been paying up all along and have nothing to do. Krupo’s incredibly unscientific summary of reactions to date:

Well that sucks, because I’m a CA so I get nothing, and will continue to get nothing extra

I’m from Quebec and I’m not a CA – my provinces rules mean that I’m not getting anything anyway. Oh nuts.

I’m happy for my non-CA friends – good for them!

Well the firms are just doing what they’re supposed to do, no big deal – they should’ve known about it already and done this sooner.

The firms are doing what they’re supposed to do, but they’re doing it well – addressing the problem as soon as they learned about instead of wondering if it would go away.

I’d add a final one: The firms are doing it before the bad publicity gets out of hand and the legal fees top the payouts.

Finally – congrats to our intrepid correspondent who is now officially a CA. As we say in tech circles: w00t!

Tagged as: big four, Tax and Ethics