Docking Wages for Lateness

Snakey

In the early 90's I had a job like that. One second late, you got docked half an hour. Ten minutes late, you lost an hour.

We just used to clock each other in, whoever got there first would stamp everybody's cards through. None of the management were around that early in the morning to know. Not that anyone was habitually late - wouldn't have been fair really, since we needed all of us to run the machines.

I've no idea whether it's legal, my layman's guess would be yes as long as it doesn't take you below the minimum wage.

patman99

My old firm had the rule that if you were over 2 minutes 59 seconds late, you would loose 15 minutes pay.

They also paid by the 1/4-hour. However, because of abuse by staff, they introduced a rule that they would only pay from the half-hour. Before the change, if we arrived at 07:16 and started work straight away, we got paid from 07:15. However a few colleages clocked-in at the same start-time, but had a cup of tea and started at 7:30.

Thus, the bosses got the hump, so we no longer got paid from 07:15, but from 07:30 instead. As a result, production dropped.