Business Laws With a Time Clock in Georgia
- Georgia time clock and employee timekeeping regulations are, in fact, federal lawsold time clock image by Michael Shake from Fotolia.com
Time clock and business employee timekeeping laws in Georgia are defined by the United States Department of Labor (DOL) time clock regulations in the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA). There is no separate Georgia law regarding time clocks and employee timekeeping. FLSA covers a wide range of issues, in addition to timekeeping. - All employers that have employees who work under the protection of the FSLA must keep complete time records for each employee. Employers in Georgia must comply with these requirements. These records must include wages, hours and other information, including full name, Social Security number, address, sex and occupation. The time and date on which the employer's workweek starts must also be recorded, as well as the basis of the wage, whether hourly, weekly, monthly, or annual. The DOL does not define the method of timekeeping and record keeping, whether a time clock, computer system, or manually written and verified records. Records must be kept for three years.
- The length of a workweek is defined as 40 hours, and this standard applies in Georgia. Although an 8-hour workday is a social standard, the FSLA does not formally define the length of a workday. Although a full-time workweek is often five eight-hour days, full-time weeks can be four 10-hour days or four 9-hour days and one four-hour day. Time worked over 40 hours in a week is considered overtime for people who are not exempt from overtime laws.
- Overtime laws are the same in Georgia as in other states in the United States. Time in a week over 40 hours, or in some rare cases in a two-week period over 80 hours, is considered overtime work. Overtime for employees who are not exempt from overtime regulations must be paid at 1.5 times the base rate. People who are often considered fully exempt from overtime pay include some commissioned salespeople, air transportation workers, and rail and taxi employees. Some employees in the Merchant Marines are considered exempt, as are news announcers and editors. Domestic service workers who live with an employer and employees of movie theaters are also in a long list of people who are not entitled to overtime pay. However, the timekeeping requirements and time clock requirements for these employees is the same as for non-exempt employees.
