[azteechur]

I am a salaried teacher at a small charter school on a reservation. I would like to know if it is legal to deduct money from my paycheck if I am 15 minutes late, even though I might work hours beyond my scheduled work hours? Also is it legal to require salaried employees to sign in and out as well as use a time clock when the time clock does not match the regular clock? Our staff is being charged for late time but not compensated for overtime even though we are salaried employees. I know teachers fall in a different category but I don't know what is legal and where to find the information I need to support the findings. Please help if you can.

[Too Short]

If you working for a company you have to clock in by the time clock hours. And yes they can deduct money for your pay check if you are 15 minutes late.

[Fr_Chuck]

If you clock in and out and they deduct money if you are late, they may, and I expect they are required to pay you for any time that "they" require you to work over.

I worked for a factory some years ago, all of us in our department was salary, they started making us clock in and out, well a couple people file a complaint and guess what they had to pay us several years of pay, they had to go though all the time clock records and pay us.

Now the IF, and I am not sure about, since you work on a reservation, do you fall under US government law. If this is in the US and this is a Indian reservation, they are their own government ( nation) and this could be an issue ( just don't know,)