Exempt time cards

NaeNae55

Do you have your exempt employees report hours worked? An article I read today indicated that you should keep track of all hours, even for exempt employees, in case you get sued for failure to pay overtime. The idea is that you would have signed time cards (and not be a the mercy of the employee) to fall back on even if the DOL decides to classify a worker as non-exempt.

Everything I have ever heard says NOT to keep track of hours, unless they tie back to a charge to a client. Otherwise you are treating an exempt employee as a non-exempt and could lose the exempt standing.

What do you do? Why?

cnghr

We do not have our exempt employees fill out time sheets. I have always heard the same thing, that if you require your exempt employees to fill out time sheets, you are essentially treating them as non-exempt, which could then jeopardize their exempt status.

We prefer to avoid any question as to whether a position has been properly classified by being very careful about which positions are considered exempt. If there are any "gray areas" at all, then the position remains non-exempt.

sonny

Exempts here do fill out time cards. .track vacation and sick time, tho would prefer we not.

Dutch2

We do not. I do know of a bank near by that does have all employee clock in - but they use it like Sonny - just to track attendance, vacation, sick, etc.

Nevada HR

Our exempts complete timesheets that reflect 80 hrs in a bi-wkly pay period, regardless of actual hours worked. It's for PTO tracking.

BettyBoop FL

We have exempts clock in just to establish that they did in fact come in during a given day & to establish PTO, however once clocked in they are paid for the entire day even if they leave early.

mbliek

We have exempts complete timesheets. Some of them work on multiple jobs each week. The timesheet ensures that heir time is charged to the right job number for job costing analysis.

ACU Frank

Everyone here clocks in and out... Even the CEO.

To take it a step further, at the end of the pay period all employees validate their time punches in the system, digitally sign their time cards, have their manager digitally sign their time cards, and then...

...print them out, physically sign them and turn them in.

:-/

pamelah

Our exempt complete timesheets online. Everyone tracks their time to charge numbers and codes. At the end of the week management goes online and approves the time. It helps to track people as we have 4-10, 5-8, and 9-80 schedules.**==