exempt salaried employee docked pay Illinois

[raremind]

Our employer will dock a salaried exempt employee Four (4) Hours of pay if they are late one (1) minute. If you sit down at your desk at 8:01AM you are docked four (4) hours of pay. Is this legal?

[cbg]

No, it's not. You can file a complaint with the state DOL.

However, I have two additional comments:

1.) While it is not legal to dock either an exempt or a non-exempt employee for four hours if they are one minute late, it is legal to fire either an exempt or a non-exempt employee for being one minute late.

2.) The easiest way to make this problem go away, is not to be late.

[raremind]

Thanks

This goes a little beyond what is just listed above. I work on average 60 Hours a week staying late almost everyday and coming in on weekends when I am not scheduled. I thought that docking 4 hours for being late was extremely excessive and probably illegal. Putting in all the extra hours weekly and then being treated like this for being a couple of minutes late just really shows me what I mean to my employer.

Would anyone have a a link to where this type of thing is listed? I think the next time it happens I could take it above my managers head.

[Pattymd]

http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ESA/Ti...CFR541.602.htm
http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ESA/Ti...CFR541.603.htm

[DAW]

Just to be clear that we are all saying the same thing, when the OP (original poster) says "dock" do you mean reducing the actual paycheck or reducing the vacation/PTO balance? These are legally two very different actions and some posters use the word "dock" to describe both actions.

[raremind]

They take pay, pure and simple.

[Pattymd]

Then the regulations to which I provided the links apply.