Kroger and many other retailers have worked this practice few decades if not always. It is the 7and a half minute rule. If you are to work from 9 to 5 and you clock in at 8:53 then you are working for free the first 7 minutes. Clock in at 8:52 and they are giving you sevan minutes free. Time clocks are usually set so that one can not clock in before that 7 minutes without an over ride. On the other hand if you clock out at 5:07 then you worked fot 7 minutes free. Work until 5:08 then you get the entire 15 minute of work paid. It is legal and worked by Kroger and many retailers. There are a few and very few that will break it down and have you paid by the minute.
Oh yeah, they do that here. Clock out at 9:07, you're fine, it rounds down to thinking you clocked out at 9:00. But if you clock out at 9:08, you get 15 minutes extra pay.
What if you clock in late though? If I don't show up until 5:03 instead of 5 does it count me late?
Your clocking in late is recorded and your total of late clocks shows up on a report each week but you only lose pay once you roll over to that 8th min.
when i was a manager, i had these two kids I used to call bevis and butthead and they would always come in late. i talked to them calmly; i yelled at them; i tried all sorts of crap till finally i just scheduled them to come in at 2:08pm. still didn't work LOL
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Hours are paid in one tenth of an hour, not minutes. One tenth of one hour equals six minutes.
It used to be the time clock would count your time on one hundredth of one hour or every 36 seconds, and paid on tenths of one hour. This past summer they made time computations uniform.
I used to be paid on the quarter hour, every 15 minutes, at another job.
Hours are paid in one tenth of an hour, not minutes. One tenth of one hour equals six minutes.
No, they're not, at least not for those of us who work for Kroger, which from your username, doesn't include you. We definitely get paid by the 15 min block.
