{"id":3828,"date":"2016-05-17T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T20:07:25","slug":"tracking-exempt-employee-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/tracking-exempt-employee-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Exempt Employee Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trackingWith the new rule regarding the FLSA exempt employee overtime\u00a0threshold<\/a> being announced imminently, businesses with affected employees need to be taking into account many things, including calculating the number of hours current exempt employees are working. But does it violate the current FLSA rules about tracking exempt employee time to require those employees to clock in and out?<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t violate the FLSA to have an exempt employee clock in and out. However, we\u00a0would recommend that an employer have a business reason to track an exempt employee\u2019s hours. For example, an employer may opt to track an exempt employee\u2019s hours for purposes of client billing, grant tracking, intermittent FMLA leave or sick leave, hours-based benefits calculations, or paid time off benefits.<\/p>\n

Should you choose to track the hours of your exempt employees, you\u2019ll want to be careful about how you use this information. Keep in mind that while you can hold an exempt employee to a schedule, the FLSA\u2019s salary basis test<\/a> states that these employees are paid a set salary no matter how many or few hours they work. Reducing an exempt employee\u2019s salary based on hours worked may result in the loss of the exemption, a wage and hour claim from the employee, or even a DOL audit<\/a>. Pay may be reduced in certain circumstances, however, such as a full-day absence for personal matters, or a full-day absence for sickness if a bona fide sick leave plan is offered and the employee has already used all of their paid sick leave.<\/p>\n

With the FLSA exemption changes due any time now, we recommend that employees who may become non-exempt start tracking their time. We think it will be useful for employers to see the number of hours each employee works so they can compare the cost of keeping them exempt (which may require a raise) versus paying them overtime if they continue to work the same number of hours after being reclassified as non-exempt.<\/p>\n

Need help tracking hours?<\/strong><\/p>\n

GTM can help with that. Our automated time and attendance system<\/a> saves you time and money, while keeping you\u00a0in control of your employee’s hours and schedules. Call us at (518) 373-4111 to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is critical that employers begin tracking the hours of exempt employees, if they will be affected by the new FLSA overtime exemption rules which are expected to be announced any day now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[34,54,41,15],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtm-biz-blog-hcm","tag-flsa","tag-overtime","tag-time-and-attendance","tag-wage-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}