Timekeeping Issue

[Vycor]

NY State

Can my employer mandate their own "time" meaning, can they set what time the timeclock says. Problem here is that our timeclock is PC based and PC's sometimes have bad times, depending on issues with the CMOS/battery inside the PC, it can run fast. Well every few weeks our time clock starts runing faster. Right now its a few minutes faster then the other servers here, and the atomic clock, and the phones (which feed off the nationally set clocks)... i made a complaint but was told thats the "time" of this office, if its fast its fast, that time is what we go by and although my phone and everything else may show me in on time, if that clocks running fast and i swipe in, im concidered late.

I dont see how its right for them to make up their own "time" they know the clocks running fast but refuse to fix it.

 

[cbg]

They are not violating any laws. If all the other clocks in the world say that it's 8:00 and your time clock says it's 8:06, then you need to be at work by (according to all the other clocks in the world) 7:54.

And there is no reason whatsoever why a shift has to start on the hour, the half hour, or even the quarter hour. An employer could say that everyone had to be at work at 6:38 every day and the law would not even blink.

 

[csi7]

In the business world, early is on time, on time is late. Ten minutes early will give you the extra time to be on time.

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

Mandating all employers use an atomic clock to be on one universal time is crazy. As is the expectation each employee can work based on his individual time. Think of the logic in your complaint OP.

 

[xylene]

As long and you are not being stretched or shorted on AMOUNT of time worked, there is no reason why the employer can't use their own internal clocks to set start and end times.

 

[Zigner]

OP's complaint is that the times keep changing...not that they don't match his watch.

Basically, he is saying that the clock used to keep track of his time is not accurate. If he clocks in at 7:58 today, by Monday, the clock may have drifted so now it reads 8:05...even though it's still 7:58.

 

[cbg]

As long as he gets paid for the time he actually worked, within permittable rounding limits, the DOL doesn't give a hoot what the clock says.

 

[Zigner]

As long as he gets paid for the time he actually worked, within permittable rounding limits, the DOL doesn't give a hoot what the clock says.

Agreed