re: Employer Docking Salary Pay If You Don't Clock In Or Out

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If you’re on salary, why the frick are you punching a clock?

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To ensure you're at work.

You should document your time that you are responding to emails or taking calls after hours. It will totally suck to be completely responsible to every minute of that time, but will be a strong way to combat this. And this is the every day life of defense lawyers, so don’t complain about having to document everything.

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Does nothing but hurt morale and decrease productivity IMO...

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Oh brother, you sitting in our sales meetings?

We were making on average about 85-105k a month in profit in my little 5 man group.

All these policies got put in place, work weekends, time clock, way we did business and shite went down to me making like 50-60k.

Both my bosses are gone and they kinda laxed up on the regulations. My board sitting at 88,917 in profit for May. I had a sitdown talk with the owner and told him basically you're draining your workforce. I got a double in pay raise, but shite man, that's because if I leave, we are really fricked.

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was managing, and someone refused to answer an email because they weren't at the office to clock in.... I would find someone willing to do so. Pretty simple.

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Then you fine them for answering the email without clocking in?

Yeah, I’ve talked with firms that require everyone to clock in and out. It’s not necessarily a pay thing. For finance firms, they want to know who is doing what, when, where, and why.

For consulting firms, they have a specific amount of hours you need to be able to bill to the client every year and they need people to check into client systems to verify that.

I'm on salary and if I forget to clock in/out they will dock me. If I'm late or early they will dock me. Forget those days I'm at work for 10 hours, I was once 5 minutes late and was docked at a 30 minute loss.

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Yep. I had a previous employer do something like this and we all just stopped working overtime from home. It was relaxed fairly quickly

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Yeah, and it’s your “previous” employer. If you want to build a career with someone you should not just avoid emails or work.

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That's my point and the reason for salaried employees to track hours. Just because pay doesn't change doesn't mean hours worked aren't important.

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Ah. That’s very fair. I suppose that means budgeting or client expectations have to be better. I understand, and agree, with that position.

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Yeah, and it’s your “previous” employer. If you want to build a career with someone you should not just avoid emails or work.

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I left voluntarily after 10 years but shite like that contributed to it. It shows a lack of employee trust and is generally a sign of bad leadership.

Your employer is definately violating labor law. That said, this fact and 2.00, gets you a cup of coffee. Your employer cannot, by law, classify and pay you a salary, then utilize a time clock punch to penalize you for missed time. Time records indicating hours worked over 40 in pay week must be paid at 1.5x your hourly rate. Your employer is basically utilizing the time clock to assure you work 40 plus hours a week without consideration or pay for overtime earned. They can put you on a time clock but they cannot reduce your salary without reclassifying you as hourly and subject to hourly rules. It’s illegal. You AND your coworkers can report to the labor board and have them subpoena time card records and back pay you guys overtime earned. And you will promptly be terminated. But you get your money.

As far as answering emails on weekends, since your company reclassified you from salary to hourly, they changed your weekend status of “waiting to be engaged” to “engaged in waiting” and subsequently owe you pay for that time as well.

Companies will walk on you if you let them. The question you have to ask is this. Do I want to continue to accept this and work here, or do I want to find another job and hold them accountable?