TO: Employees
SUBJECT: Compliance with new break procedures
Some of you may not like the rules about break times;, however, we determineddecided that keeping track of employees while they took breaks at times theythat they determined, rather than regular breaks at prescribed times, was not working as well as we would have liked it to work. The new rules are not going to be an option. If you do not follow the new rules, youyour pay could be docked from your pay forfor the hours when you turned up missing, since your direct supervisor will not be able to tell weatherwhether you were on a “break” or not, and will assume that you have walked away from your job. We cannot be responsible for any errors that result from your inattentiveness to the new rules. I have already heard complaints from some of you and I hope this memo will end thisthe issue once and for all. The decision has already been made.
Starting Monday, January 1, you will be required to take a regular 15-minutefifteen-minute break in the morning and again in the afternoon, and a regular thirty-minute lunch at the times specified by your supervisor, NOT when you think you need a break, or when you “get around to it.”
There will be no exceptions to this new rule!
Felicia August
MangerManager
Billing and accounting