Re:European Court of Justice: EU employers must track workin...
by michaelmrose on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:53AM
(#19926999)
We have this in the US. 99.5% of values are collected by a computer and therefore recorded accurately.
I've never seen anyone clock in and out of a pee break people only clock in for the day out for lunch back from lunch and out to go home.
Employees are strongly encouraged not to put in made up values that happen to result in them being paid more money on pain of termination and or prosecution.
Employers are strongly encouraged on pain of getting sued not to put in made up values that don't reflect the work the employee actually did.
People STILL do cheat but having the legal expectation of maintaining an auditable record normalizes accurate time keeping and makes it hard for smaller fish to make targets by cheating as they have to actively forge records and encourage behavior that is obviously erroneous.
Think of being asked to help out with additional work after your shift vs being asked to explicitly clock out THEN get back to work. Its a clear and obvious line made explicit by time keeping practices.
Of course record keeping is necessary but not sufficient. You do have to be willing to enforce the law but this would be doubly hard with lax or non existent record keeping.
On the overall I cannot even imagine how this could be deemed onerous. On net someone that works 8 hours spends perhaps 1 minute clocking in and out. It could even happen via an app on the employees phone or at their computer.
I've never seen anyone clock in and out of a pee break people only clock in for the day out for lunch back from lunch and out to go home.
Employees are strongly encouraged not to put in made up values that happen to result in them being paid more money on pain of termination and or prosecution.
Employers are strongly encouraged on pain of getting sued not to put in made up values that don't reflect the work the employee actually did.
People STILL do cheat but having the legal expectation of maintaining an auditable record normalizes accurate time keeping and makes it hard for smaller fish to make targets by cheating as they have to actively forge records and encourage behavior that is obviously erroneous.
Think of being asked to help out with additional work after your shift vs being asked to explicitly clock out THEN get back to work. Its a clear and obvious line made explicit by time keeping practices.
Of course record keeping is necessary but not sufficient. You do have to be willing to enforce the law but this would be doubly hard with lax or non existent record keeping.
On the overall I cannot even imagine how this could be deemed onerous. On net someone that works 8 hours spends perhaps 1 minute clocking in and out. It could even happen via an app on the employees phone or at their computer.