| I would recommend that people check with their state's labor board before implementing any policy that hold's or takes money from an employee's paycheck. The gov has a “dog in this fight” namely, income and social security taxes so they are pre-disposed to pretend to be on the "Employee's" side (their side really).
In the one example of dealings I KNOW of with the State of Florida, a sister company, with join ownership and separate management, had one of their ex-employees complained to the state about one labor issue, and the state audited their payroll and policies back for 7 or 5 years, NOT only for the one labor issue complained about by the one ex-employee, but for ALL current AND past employees AND any labor issue. The mandated state settlement was sooo UGLY, the STATE proposed a payment plan!
Granted, they got poked for a bunch of different infractions:
Making employees managers for the purpose of avoiding overtime payments.
Not paying employees for mandatory time spent “On-call”.
And holding or taking money from an employee's paycheck, which was the smallest % compared to the first two, but still…
Be careful, look before you leap!
Tom
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