Time Clock & Tardiness

[Tedrick]

My Illinois company is going to required us to punch a time clock.  We are salaried-exempt employees.  We were told but we do not have a written policy that if we are late or leave early that it will be marked as a tardy and go on to our permanent employee file.

They want us to start punch the time clock tomorrow but we do not know what constitutes a tardy.  Supposely, they are going to give us a policy in a few days defining what a tardy is.

Nothing has been mentioned about docking our pay.  

[Townsend]

It is not illegal for a company to have salaried exempt employees punch a time clock.

What will happen if they keep track of hours and either dock hours or write up employees for being tardy and leaving early is that the exemption will be lost and the employees will become hourly employees.

Exempt employees are paid by the job and not by the hour. They should not be treated as hourly employees. If they are and the exemption is lost than they must be paid overtime for all hours worked over 40 hours per week.

Shirley