On Jan 28, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
Personally I would do a full Date-Time for every employee in and
out. What is really the most important is not the time punch but
the difference between the in and out. This is most easily
calculated by using the Date.TotalSeconds property:
But in the real world, people are not paid by that difference but
more by the relative nature of the punch in and punch out times to
the expected start and stop times of that shift. Any deviance from
that is usually flagged and adjusted later by the payroll department.
I have a personal beef with that because one of my employers rounded
the time to the nearest 15 minutes (to make it easy to calculate).
In theory, you would think that it would average out an not be in
anyone's favor... but in reality a dedicated employee who regularly
clocks in 5 minutes before the shift starts and doesn't clock out
until after is ends is getting a bad deal (especially if you clock in
and out for lunch).
Once I counted up the time during two pay-periods and compared it to
the paychecks... and I was paid short by about 3 hours over the
course of a 4 week period. I talked to the boss about it and he
basically said that it was policy and he was sticking by it.
Now I am of the opinion that it is the most fair to count the exact
clock-time, and I vowed to treat my employees that way when I was in
that position.
Dealing with employees who are late to shift is a different matter
but should not be attached to payroll.
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