In my experience, FWIW, employees that get to travel like that are salaried
and therefore don't have to punch a clock. Time zones may figure into
"billable hours", but there are no hourly wages for these people that are
dependent on a time clock's being accurate to , 1 minute, let alone 1
second.
Brian
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From: "Gerard Ashton" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:32 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [LEAPSECS] Problem for comparison: workers in multiple time zones
In this list, various time problems that people have learned to live with
without really solving are sometimes mentioned, in order to put the leap
second problem into perspective. I would like to mention one more.
A company has its employees fill out a time sheet on a computer (or
equivalently, has a data entry employee enter the data into a computer
without training said data enterer with clear instructions). The company
has numerous government and company policies concerning hourly pay,
overtime, extra compensation for weekends and holidays. The employees
often travel and get involved in complex situation such as boarding a
plane in one time zone, work on the plane, and report to work at the home
office, all in a 24 hour period. The computer time entry programs
typically do not have a time zone field, and the employees are typically
given no instructions on how to record time worked in a different time
zone. In many cases this reflects an absence of company policy on work in
a different time zone.
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