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    Default Can an Employer Use Unequal Time Tracking Methods for Different Departments

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Florida

    I work for a wholesale tropical fish provider. My department works on land, taking care of the fish. We are responisble for keeping the animals alive and healthy. Other departments include sales, administration, transport, and divers/collections. My employer requires my department to account for each minute worked each day through the use of a computer database. This database has over 18 categories of activities, assigned to three different daily job shifts, that we may spend our time on during any given day. We are required to be as accurate as possible, assigning our time spent on each activity daily. If we spend time helping another employee in our department who is on a different shift, we are required to account for that time under their shift.

    At the start of the following week, our data entry from the previous week is reviewed, and our total time spent for the workweek, along with our total time spent on each activity during that week, is compared to the "average" time for that activity which has been compiled over the course of 2 years. If our data is over the "average" for any activity, are usually questioned by the timetracking manager to account for why our time entered is over the "average". Our department is the only department in the company that uses this detailed level of timekeeping. Other departments simply log when they started work, their lunch break, and their end of the day. One department has to enter a symbol for 4 categories of work on a sheet of paper.

    Is the amount of detail my department has to go through in its timetracking considered unfair according to labor laws, given that other departments are not required to do this? If I am meeting all my job responsibilites, but still getting questioned and sometimes chastized weekly if my times on activites are over the "averages", can this be construed as harassment? My job is to keep fish alive, disease free, and keep the life-support in the faciltiy operational. Rarely if ever are we questioned about this performance, and whether we did enough to keep an animal healthy or well-fed; we are instead on questioned about our time spent doing an activity. Is this normal? Is it in violation of any employment laws?

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    Default Re: Can an Employer Use Unequal Time Tracking Methods for Different Departments

    No, of course it's not harassment.

    I see nothing illegal here.

    Your recourse is to find another job if you're unhappy.

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    Default Re: Can an Employer Use Unequal Time Tracking Methods for Different Departments

    Agree.

    No laws broken.

    Your issues can only be relieved by seeking employment elsewhere.

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    Default Re: Can an Employer Use Unequal Time Tracking Methods for Different Departments

    Is the amount of detail my department has to go through in its timetracking considered unfair according to labor laws, given that other departments are not required to do this? No. Labor laws do not give a damn what is fair. They care only what is legal. This is. What department you work for is not a protected category under the law; it is therefore quite legal to treat one department differently from another.

    If I am meeting all my job responsibilites, but still getting questioned and sometimes chastized weekly if my times on activites are over the "averages", can this be construed as harassment? No.

    My job is to keep fish alive, disease free, and keep the life-support in the faciltiy operational. Rarely if ever are we questioned about this performance, and whether we did enough to keep an animal healthy or well-fed; we are instead on questioned about our time spent doing an activity. Is this normal? What is "normal"? Different industries and different jobs have different requirements. It doesn't matter if yours is the only department at any employer anywhere in the world that is questioned about your time at various activities (and I assure you it is not). If there is no law prohibiting it, and there isn't, that's all that matters.

    Is it in violation of any employment laws? No.

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