Employee sues Isle of Capri over timekeeping system

[Sherman A1]

BOONVILLE, Mo. - An employee of Isle of Capri-Boonville sued the business Thursday, claiming employees are losing money on the business' timekeeping system.

According to the lawsuit, Isle of Capri’s time clock rounding policy, over a period of time, fails to compensate employees correctly for all time worked, including overtime hours.

The computerized system reportedly tracks the exact minute an hourly employee clocks in and out. However, Isle of Capri allegedly uses a rounding system while computing payroll, rounding to the closest 15-minute interval. The lawsuit said Isle of Capri's policies require staff to clock in approximately seven minutes before the start of a shift and employees could be disciplined if they clock in after the start of their shift.

The lawsuit says this forces employees to clock in at least seven minutes before their shift starts, but allows Isle of Capri to avoid paying them for that time due to the rounding system.

https://www.abc17news.com/news/employee-sues-isle-of-capri-over-time-keeping-system/1072507362

[Roy Rolling]

1. The Number(s) Don't Lie

That number is 7.

If employees clocked in 8 minutes early, that would cross the threshold of a 15-minute, payable segment.

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2. Back in the mid 1970s I worked at a radio station where you simply wrote down your hours.

The home office in Charlotte NC (the station was in Iowa) felt that too much overtime was being paid, so they installed a time clock which stamped time cards. Overtime actually went UP, because employees had been UNDER reporting their hours. The genius station manager came up with a fix. He required people to clock in and out at the exact time they were scheduled to start and end work. And THEN go back to what they had been doing -- for no pay. That little management ruse got reported,, and shortly thereafter there was a new general manager.

[Sherman A1]

3. I remember those days

When I was starting out in the grocery business. The only way to move up was to work some "Church Time" and any Department Manager (who were all hourly workers) was implicitly expected to put in a fair amount of off the clock work or they wouldn't be a Department Manager very long. Thankfully that ended for the most part in the 1980s when the company got nailed with a big EEOC complaint and settlement. They somehow miraculously came to the conclusion in the Ivory Tower that paying fines was much more expensive than doing the right thing from the start that included the big emphasis on working off the clock. Not the brightest crayons in the box, but they eventually learned.