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.

If you are a nonexempt employee, you must accurately record the time you start and stop work, when you start and end any meal periods or split shifts, 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. You may not change time after it is already recorded, enter a false time on purpose, tamper with time records, or record other employees' time for them. 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 you can start earlier or work later when your supervisor approves it in advance.

Nonexempt employees must sign their time records to say they are accurate. Each supervisor will review and initial the time record before submitting it for payroll processing. In addition, if corrections or changes are made to the time record, both you and your supervisor must initial the changes on the time record.