I have a question that is two-fold. First, I'm a salaried employee who works for a company that has had the brilliantly demoralizing idea to force all of us (except management) to use an automated time clock to punch in and out. I'm concerned about having my paycheck docked if I'm ever late, or when I'm unable to clock in when I get to work due to computer problems that are in no way my fault. Can my employer legally dock my pay for 5 minutes or 10 minutes, even though I'm not paid by the hour?
Secondly, is it typical or ATYPICAL for employers who only give their full-time employees 30 minutes for lunch to make them clock out for that half-hour? I've worked full time for more than 15 years and in all that time, my experience has been that hour-long lunches are unpaid, but employers that only allow lunch breaks to be 30 minutes long have kept me on the clock and paid me for that half hour, thus considering a schedule of 9-5 as fulfilling their 8-hour workday requirement. My employer has been strong-arming my coworkers and myself to punch out for lunch so that they don't have to pay us for it and while I don't doubt the legality of this policy, I'm just curious if what I've experienced prior to taking the position with my current employer is standard, or if what my current employer enforces is less the exception and more the general rule.
Thanks!
Secondly, is it typical or ATYPICAL for employers who only give their full-time employees 30 minutes for lunch to make them clock out for that half-hour? I've worked full time for more than 15 years and in all that time, my experience has been that hour-long lunches are unpaid, but employers that only allow lunch breaks to be 30 minutes long have kept me on the clock and paid me for that half hour, thus considering a schedule of 9-5 as fulfilling their 8-hour workday requirement. My employer has been strong-arming my coworkers and myself to punch out for lunch so that they don't have to pay us for it and while I don't doubt the legality of this policy, I'm just curious if what I've experienced prior to taking the position with my current employer is standard, or if what my current employer enforces is less the exception and more the general rule.
Thanks!
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