Labor law question
Today my boss had me write and distribute to all department heads and supervisors the following memo:
"Effective immediately, all salaried personnel who are presently writing in their time card are required to punch the time clock when arriving and leaving the building.
This has become necessary due to changes in the Labor law regarding verification."
Can anyone verify such a requirement or is this just more of her harassment.
Googling “Changes” + “Labor Law” turns up nothing particularly likely.
Googling “Changes” + “Labor Law” + “Texas” also turns up nothing interesting in the first 30 hits.
If something did change, it certainly doesn’t have high search rankings.
Perhaps this change happenned some while ago, and your firm is JUST NOW changing their rules to comply with state or federal specifications?
I think she is just hasseling the supervisors because one of them is not telling the truth about how much time he spends on the job. I see all her mail before she does and she doesn’t do computer and I haven’t seen anything about such a change. I was just wondering if I had missed something. I know a lot of labor laws are broken at our firm, (unreimbursed over-time, off-the clock work) so it seemed odd to me that she would suddenly be so careful.
Well, I suspect you’re right, but I wouldn’t call that “more of her harassment.” It’s a shame when one or two employees can’t be trusted, and force this on the rest.
Yeah, they’re just gaming them for some reason. The ‘Labor Law’ thing strikes me as a convenient excuse.
And where are you working that personnel on ‘salary’ have to punch a time card? By definition if you’re on salary you’re not an hourly worker.
Under the Bush Administration DOL is changing the rules regarding FLSA exempt and non-exempt employees. This matter is currently before Congress and is generating a lot of concern among employees and unions.
The union poosition is that these changes will take away overtime for many employees and thus lower household incomes.
I expect that if you are working for a large company that this is some sort of initiative from management in response to proposed/anticipated changes.
Also, there are a number ofbig lawsuits (class action) concerning compnaies who have actually “stolen” work time from employees (work w/o pay) - these suits tie into the proposed FLSA changes.
In other words it is a climate of change - thus the memo.