@lucianne
Like others said, check to see what the local requirements would be.
Paid or unpaid?
(It’s been well over a decade that I’ve been on the worker side) but 4 hours is so short, I think 15 min is adequate. No one is making a meal, just a quick smoke/chill/whatever and back to work...
@jro1 First off, if you’ve got 12 hours of bookkeeping to get 2023 closed, you should probably have semi-annual/quarterly cleanups. 3 hours a quarter is better than an annual fix.
Second, yeah, they should have communicated when they went over 8 and detailed why. But at the end of the day...
@mikedo I’ll echo this. They can ask, and you can say no. Three years is common and anything older than that is ancient history.
That being said, with $$$ on the line, I wouldn’t sink the ship for just this, but definitely push back.