Nonexempt employees are responsible for accurately recording the hours they work. The law requires MCC to keep accurate records of "time worked" in order to correctly calculate employee pay and benefits. "Time worked" means all the time that nonexempt employees spend performing their assigned work.

Individual employees are assigned a unique Time Clock ID card for our electronic system.  Employees “swipe in” when they report to work in the morning, and “swipe out” when they have completed their work shift. 

All nonexempt employees are required to take one mid-day free hour as a meal period during each 8-hour work shift. One UNPAID meal hour is automatically deducted from each 8-hour work day.

If you are a nonexempt employee, you must accurately record the time you start and stop work and when you leave the workplace for personal reasons. Before you work any overtime, you must always get advance approval.

Falsifying time records is a serious matter. Unauthorized use of a time card, entering a false time on purpose, tampering with time records, or recording other employees' time for them is strictly prohibited. If you do any of these actions, you may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.

If you are a nonexempt employee, you should not start working more than 15 minutes before your scheduled start time. You should also not continue working more than 15 minutes after your schedule end time. You can only start earlier or work later when your supervisor approves it in advance.