are hourly employees required by law to keep time sheets
Do exempt employees have to turn in time sheets? And when an exempt employee takes vacation or sick time, does payroll just “subtract” it from the employee’s salary? Let’s go to the experts on this one, the federal government. I live in California and am a “salaried” employee. I receive the same rate of pay every two weeks. My boss requires me to fill out a timesheet with my actual time worked each day (e.g., I input that I arrive at 8:00 am, take a lunch from 12:30 pm – 1:00pm, and leave at 5:30 pm, for a total of 8.5 hours that day). Tiime Sheets exempt. I am exempt and have no problem with filling a time sheet; my problem is I am told to fill in 8 hours for everyday I work. I have been made to include hour increments on sick time. Non-exempt workers must be paid overtime (time and a half) for any hours over 40 they work in a single week. Exempt workers are exempt from overtime requirements — but they must be paid the same salary every week, if they worked any portion of it, with a few narrow exceptions. I never had to keep a timesheet or punch a timeclock at any of my other four jobs while a salaried employee, so this seems odd to me. In addition, the boss requires me to be in the office from 8-5 pm every day (during normal business hours). According to federal law, businesses can keep time sheets or time cards recording the actual number of hours their employees work. As a practical issue, they can round their employees' time worked to the nearest 15 minutes. This means that exempt employees get full salary for any workweek in which they perform any work, no matter how many days or hours they worked. There are a few exceptions, but the general rule is not deductions from salary for time off. So the short answer is: No, they don’t need to submit time sheets. But … you can ask exempt employees to keep time records, just not as the basis for their pay. Example: Andrea’s job overlaps two departments, so her salary comes from two separate budgets. It’s legal to ask her to track her hours for the two departments’ internal accounting or client billing. Time Sheet Requirements by Law. Federal time-sheet laws require covered employers to keep minimum records of the hours their employees work. Businesses may have to keep daily records if they pay their workers hourly. This is to ensure compliance with federal minimum-wage and overtime laws. Many states have additional time-sheet requirements for employers and may require companies to keep records of employees' break times. Salary Exempt employees, should not submit time sheets or hours? I am currently an office manage/bookkeeper and oversee all HR issues for a small business with 5 Salary Exempt clerical employees, 3 salary exempt field technicians, and the rest hourly. Currently all employees are required to either punch the time clock (all clerical employees, non billable to clients) or submit a weekly timesheet of all hours worked/jobs performed. Hours are then calculated and submitted to payroll. An hourly employee will receive their pay stub indicating the total number of hours worked for the pay period. And salary employees receive their pay stubs with no indication of hours worked, just simply their salary pay for the period. We have a bi-weekly payroll.
Yes