

When he punched in at 8:01 am, though, his clock in time was adjusted to 8:15 am. Sam notices that, when he punched in his time card at 7:59 am, his clock-in time was rounded back to 8:00 am. Minutes 8 through 15 are rounded to the subsequent one.įor example: Sam’s employer uses 15-minute increments for clock in and clock out times. Under this rule, minutes 1 through 7 are rounded to the prior increment. In these cases, employers have to follow the 7-minute rule. This practice is most common when employers use increments of 15 minutes. This can deprive you or your rightful wages if the employer does not round to the nearest increment, but instead always rounds down. 3 Employers often round work time to the nearest: They can do this so long as it does not, in the aggregate, deprive you or your wages. However, employers have the option of rounding the clock in and clock out times to a particular increment or fraction of an hour. Many employers track the clock in and clock out time to the minute. Always rounding down can violate federal labor laws.

When employers use increments of an hour to calculate the number of hours you work in a day, rather than a precise minute, they have to round to the nearest increment being used. Rounding rules for employers that use time increments It does not require such timekeeping activities for exempt workers. This requires covered employees to clock in at the start of the workday and to clock out at the end of the workday.

In order to keep these records, employers have to track when you begin and end work every day.
