Work Time
There are some employers who, if you don’t watch them, will go in and change your hours worked on your time clock. This can run afoul of Georgia employment law as well as federal regulations.
This may be based on the principle of “rounding up,” where an employment rule may be that employees are allowed to clock in our out within certain times before and after a scheduled shift starts without penalty.
Or, there may be a phrase in an employee manual that seems to indicate that non- scheduled time is non- compensable, and the employee’s time clock is adjusted to the actual scheduled shift times.
But under United State Department of Labor regulations, every minute that you actually worked has to be compensated, regardless of whether or not your time was “on the clock.”
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