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If an exempt employee calls in sick and plans on being out for the entire day, you can "dock" his or her pay for the whole day and make up for the loss from a sick or vacation leave plan, if you offer those kinds of benefits. ... If you make a habit of "docking" exempt employees for absences of less than one day,
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To qualify as exempt, employees have to be paid a set amount each pay period, without any reductions based on the quantity or quality of work they do. If you dock their pay, you are treating them like nonexempt employees, and the law might consider them as such -- and thereby entitle them to overtime.
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Lisa, As far as your former employer's practice that "work hours taken off and being less than 2 hours did not need to be reported", I assume that was a "liberal" gesture made by the company to keep ... You are here: Experts > Jobs/Careers > Human Resources > Human Resources > exempt employees getting docked pay;
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; You are here: Experts > Business > Corporate Law > Employment Law > mandatory dock time for exempt employees; ... What is the time being docked for? Is it docked time or is it a salary cut? Please explain what is being docked and how it is being done. ... They can lay you off for one day a week and not pay you for that day.
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HRMorning.com » Docking pay for exempt employees: What’s allowed? ... I understand or thought I understood that exempt employee’s can be docked pay if they overused their Vacation or Sick time. ... Donna – If your contract specifies hourly pay, they need to pay you for your blackberry time. That being said, I doubt that...
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Deductions from pay of exempt employees may be made for unpaid disciplinary suspensions of one or more full days imposed in good faith for infractions of workplace conduct rules. Such suspensions must be imposed pursuant to a written policy applicable to all employees.
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Wage and Hour (examination of whether exempt employees are properly classified, payment of wages to terminated employees, records maintained and for how long, if exempt employees are being docked pay, and if so, for what reasons);
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Review payroll procedures to assure that exempt employees are not being docked pay for partial-day absences. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that such a practice will, in essence, take away the overtime exemption because the company is keeping track of hours worked.
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Then I've read on other web sites that exempt employees can be docked if it is a full day (the class said full week) just not a partial day. This seems to give employers an unfair advantage... they can dock exempt employees' pay but not be responsible for overtime?
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