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.
While neutral rounding policies have historically been approved by California courts, the Sixth District California Court of Appeal recently held in Camp v. Home Depot, 84 Cal.App.5th.
the Sixth District California Court of Appeal held in Camp v. Home Depot that employers who utilize timekeeping systems that capture each minute worked by employees must fully compensate employees for all time worked, instead of rounding even if the rounding policy is neutral.
The Sixth District California Court of Appeal held that despite evidence of neutrality of a rounding policy, the employer did not meet its burden of proof to show employees were.