can your employer legally not pay you for work done?

[silverfoxcc]

Work for a firm that has fitted an electronic sign in/out machine by means of a touch card.they are now not paying us for shifts if we fail to clock in or out, and have to sign a form and the held back pay comes in the next paycheck However we have to sign in and off on the vehicle tachometer and tracker so they still have a record.although we regularly work a 9 hour day we are contracted for 8 and never get the o/t. They are now threatening to not pay us at all if this happens in the future. Can this be legal?

[VX Foxy]

No.
Leave and get another job.

[velocefica]

No they can't

[Motorrad]

They must have a lot of 'goodwill' from their employees.

Places I've worked with a similar attitude from the management suffered a lot of sick days, 'shrinkage' and unexplained damage to equipment.

Can't answer your question but I do have a lot of sympathy with you. Start looking for a new job.

[TooMany2cvs]

silverfoxcc said:

they are now not paying us for shifts if we fail to clock in or out

So remember to clock in and out. Problem sorted.

[Chlamydia]

A company I worked for introduced these, (electronic machines you'd place your ID against to tag in) when a new director took over, despite the fact that there had never been a problem with time-keeping before. Then the problems started. It was a new system so people forgot to tag in and/or out and they didn't get paid. Then some people who did tag in/out didn't get paid because the system didn't log it and didn't give a warning that it wasn't being logged. Then people who worked overtime didn't get paid as it only paid the base hours. At that point we all took it in turns to be the first person in and the last person out - that person would then tag everyone in and out, making the system pretty useless.
They binned it in the end but only because they realised that they were paying a lot more in overtime

[vxr8mate]

I suspect it's merely a way to ensure you remember to use the 'tech' they have introduced rather than offer the Luddite's approach claiming you forgot.