Exempt Employee Time Monitoring - Virginia

[macy]

I am a supervisor over a team of exempt, professional employees. Management insists that I monitor the time of my exempt employees (i.e., arrive 10 minutes late - make the time up!). In addition, I am regularly requested to provide the scheduled work times for my team members (start, begin lunch, end lunch, leave) and these scheduled work hours are compared to the reports generated by the 'card swipe' as we enter or depart the building. If the times indicated in the report differ from those scheduled, I am subject to many questions and a reminder of how important it is to enforce consistency. I realize there is no law against this but, I have a team of extremely productive professionals who feel as if they are hourly workers. I would have no problem addressing this issue with an exempt employee if attendance were discussed as a possible cause of poor performance or productivity but, to have these types of discussions with a top performer? Is there a point where the exempt status becomes endangered by this type of activity?

[cbg]

The only time an exempt status is going to be threatened by time monitoring, is if their pay starts being affected by the results.