CAC Employee Handbook June 2024

Timekeeping & Payroll

Timekeeping

Accurately recording time worked is the responsibility of every employee. Federal and state laws require Community Animal Clinic to keep an accurate record of time worked in order to calculate employee pay and benefits. Time worked is all the time actually spent on the job performing assigned tasks.

Employees must accurately record the time when they leave and return to the Clinic.

Altering, falsifying, tampering with time records, or recording time on another employee’s time record may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

Paydays

Community Animal Clinic’s pay period begins Sunday night at 12:00 midnight and ends on the Sunday night at 12:00 midnight two weeks later. Paychecks are distributed bi-weekly on Wednesday following the close of the previous (2-week) pay period. Each paycheck will include earnings for all work performed during the previous (2-week) pay period during which it is paid.

Administrative Pay Corrections

Community Animal Clinic takes all reasonable steps to ensure that employees receive the correct amount of pay in each paycheck and that employees are paid promptly on the scheduled payday. In the event there is an error in the amount of pay, the employee should promptly bring the discrepancy to the attention of Dr. Beamer so that corrections can be made as quickly as possible (generally in the following pay period).

Pay Deductions

The law requires that Community Animal Clinic make certain deductions from every employee’s compensation. Among these are applicable federal and state income taxes. Community Animal Clinic also must deduct Social Security taxes on each employee’s earnings up to a

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