Who/what keeps track of your hours?

[SteelGrey]

Do you use an old fashion time card? Computers? How do you keep track of overtime, holidays, shift differentials, on call etc? Do you ever have discrepancies?

[Fiona59]

Shift book and paper overtime slips computer entered by a payroll clerk, in one of the crappiest systems every bought to do payroll. It truly is a crap shoot. My payroll clerks are some of the most organized people I know but the glitches in the system would make St. Peter swear like a longshoreman

Yes, Alberta Health Services, I am talking about you!

[SteelGrey]

Haha! Glad I'm not alone in the payroll crapshoot game!

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I've received a set salary since December, so I am paid for 40 hours per week regardless of how much I actually work.

Prior to that, I was paid by the hour and used my workplace badge to punch in/out. If I forgot my badge, I could punch in/out using my employee ID number. A centralized computer system located at the company headquarters kept track of the hours, and if any modifications needed to be made, our in-house payroll coordinator made them.

Overall, the system worked for me with very few errors. This company had been sued for poor timekeeping in the past, so they usually get things right.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

We have a computer system. We have to go in at some point each shift and say what time we came and left. It's not really a time card system because we can do it whenever and it's kind of "on your honor" that the times you put in are accurate (though I'm sure one of my coworkers would say something of I was coming in 20 minutes late daily).

[Nurse Connie]

We have a computer time clock, we punch in our employee number and scan our fingerprint.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Computer system or not I ALWAYS keep track of my hours, and shift differential, to compare it to what I am paid. I bring discrepancies to the manager/payroll attention.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

KRONOS system. There are time clocks - scan employee ID badge - all over the place for routine 'in' and 'out' for non-exempt staff. It also has an online app - to check benefit time (PTO, EIB, etc) and OT balances in 'real time'.... or to enter vacation PTO in advance. It's OK.

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

Old fashioned paper slips, and little slips we attach with paperclips for overtime, not uncommon for me to have 3 sheets some pay periods, I use a LOT of paperclips because I want to be paid! I look forward to Kronos when we upgrade out of archaism. Although with how ineffiecent/error-innundated most of our computer systems are, I may miss those blue slips of paper...

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

Kronos. There are sometimes discrepancies between who is scheduled in Kronos for a shift and the paper assignment sheet. But we are always supposed to defer to Kronos. Overall it's been fine. At my previous hospital we actually signed in on a sheet. I couldn't believe it. People would have other people sign in for them if they would be late, etc.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

Kronos clocks and can view timecard there or online (with appropriate pw of course). You can verify every single shift if you like. You MUST verify by last shift prior to paryoll or you get what they show, right or wrong.

[RNperdiem, RN]

Telephone clock-in here. There is a sheet of paper on the assistant nurse manager's door for any corrections, forgetting to clock in, or writing in times for things like mandatory meetings that are paid for.