Q: Do employers have to pay for work even if its under an hour?
My friend works at starbucks and she says that if she does not work for an hour exactly she will not get paid. If she works 50 minutes, 40, 30, 15, do they have to bill for the minutes under an hour? Or can a company legally not pay for work that does not exceed an hour?
A: Employers can round up or down as much as 15 minutes, as long as the overall effect is not to fail to pay employees for time they work. As described, this practice does not appear to fit within permissible rounding- if they are simply not paying for shifts under an hour.
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