Home Depot Adopts New Policy on How It Pays Employees Following Lawsuit
Home Depot announced a new policy regarding how it calculates employee wages, doing away with its earlier practice of rounding off time spent by employees at work and instead choosing to calculate based on the “nearest minute” spent by workers.
“Our policy has been to round total shift time up or down to the nearest 15 minutes, which has been a common industry practice for many years,” Home Depot spokeswoman Sara Gorman told Business Insider. “As laws, technology, and workplace practices continue to evolve, we’re changing our practice nationwide effective January 16, 2023, to pay hourly associates to the nearest minute based on exact time punches.”…