My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Minnesota
I apologize if this question has already been answered, I may have missed it. Our small business has 10 employees, including part time workers and the two owners. Besides the owners and myself, all employees are hourly. Employees accrue a certain amount of PTO that can be used for any reason. We also have a specified amount of unpaid time off that they are allowed to use before any disciplinary action is taken. Again, the unpaid time off can be used for any purpose. In either case any time off must use either the PTO or the unpaid time off (UTO) unless a special exception is granted, which happens periodically for various reasons. This is all clearly written in the PTO & UTO policy that is given to them when hired or any time changes are made.
The question I have is whether or not it is legal to require non-exempt employees to make up missed hours by either coming in early, staying late, or working the Saturday shift. During slow periods missing time isn’t a huge issue, however in our busy seasons it becomes a massive problem to unexpectedly lose that 8 hours of production time. We are a fairly seasonal business, spring and late fall are usually incredibly busy periods where our lead time doubles or triples, sometimes within a couple of days. You can see where unexpected absences can cause issues within those times. Obviously we aren't out to cause problems for our employees, but we need to meet our production goals too.
Thank you for your help.

