Timeline for Salaried Employee Being Dinged For Tardiness
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 15:51 | comment | added | Graham | @VictorProcure No, the policy says you must check in by 8, therefore you check in by 8, and that's all. If you don't get any recognition for being early, 7:59 is as valid as 6:59. And you check out at 5:00 on the dot. Following the rules cannot be classed as contempt. You may quite justifiably feel contempt to the people who set those rules, but if you're following them to the letter then the company cannot penalise you in any way. In fact, if they do then you have cast-iron evidence for a wrongful dismissal case. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 15:23 | comment | added | coteyr | @Graham I tend to agree. But, it's up to the company to decide if the rules are strict or not. As long as the expectation is clear, and it's applied fairly. You don't have to work there, you can go find another job. As a complete aside, with this in place the "people left" didn't care about it. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | Victor Procure | This is a good answer because A) personal reference and B) correct information. If your company policy says be there at 8:00am ready for work and you're not there at 7:50 making sure you'll be ready at 8. Then you're already late. I'd fire someone for that, imo it shows contempt for the company and rules (however, ill-founded they may be) | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 12:53 | comment | added | Graham | @coteyr If you're in a business where you need to be ready to go at 8am, then fair enough. Any kind of customer-service work, for instance. But anywhere else doing that will kill your employee relations, and then the employees will treat the company the same way. You've got a massive order which could let the company break into the big time, and you'd like me to work overtime for a week to fill that order? I don't care, I'm clocking off at 5pm. Maybe if you pay me 10x my hourly rate, I might make an exception...? Flexibility goes both ways. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 7:40 | comment | added | coteyr | I have fired people for this too, not even 5 years ago. I never felt guilty about it. The company policy was to be ready to go at 8:00. Anyone late (even higher-ups) that was not ready to work at 8:00 got written up, warned, and then fired on the third occasion in a 3 month period. If the company is lax with it's rules then ok, but your not entitled to that laxness, no should it be expected. The default should be to show up early. | |
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| Sep 29, 2018 at 19:02 | history | answered | RonJohn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |