Tracking Hours Worked

You need to have a reliable system for keeping track of your employees’ hours to pay them properly and to ensure compliance with wage and hour laws. An easy place to find a time sheet appropriate to your type of business is at an office supply store. Depending on your needs, you can find paper or software based solutions. However, while you may rely on your employees to keep their time, it’s up to you to make sure that what they record is correct. In certain businesses, time clocks may be appropriate.

Generally, you're required to determine precisely the time for which you must pay your employees, including fractional parts of an hour. You can use a rounding convention (for example, to the nearest tenth of an hour), if, over a period of time, the rounding results in employees getting paid for all the time they actually work.