'My colleagues are all 8am until 5:30pm. My contract is for 9 to 5pm': Employee refuses to amend his hours after HR discovers their mistake in his contract

Always remember that it's the responsibility of both parties to honor an employment contract. If there was a mistake in those terms that should have been acknowledged before everyone signed, then everyone has the right to agree or decline to those changes. 

In this instance, we have an employee who recently began working for a company where his hours were 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Those were the hours as written in his contract by a relatively new employee in the company's human resources department. Well, it turns out that the HR representative made the slightest error. She likely assumed that those would be the new hire's hours based on traditional work standards. However, other employees within the new hire's department actually had more grueling hours. Their days began at 8:00 AM and ended at 5:30 PM. 

The new hire recognized that something did seem strange every morning when he arrived at the office and all of his coworkers were already hard at work. The same goes with the end of the day, when all his coworkers would stay behind after he left. Once he realized what was going on, the author knew that this was not his error and that he only needed to honor the hours expressed in his own contract. However, HR had other plans…

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