Non-exempt Employees
Accurately recording time worked is the responsibility of every nonexempt employee. Federal and state laws require the Cleveland Institute of Art to keep an accurate record of time worked in order to calculate pay and benefits.

Time worked is defined as all-time actually spent on the job, performing assigned duties.

Employees must accurately record the time they begin and end their work, as well as the beginning and ending time of each meal period. They must also record the beginning and ending time of any split shift or leaving work for personal reasons. Timesheets are due on the 6th and 21st of every month, or the next business day if those dates fall on a date when the building is closed. 

Tampering, altering, falsifying time records, or recording time on another employee’s time record will result in corrective action, up to and including termination. 

Employees should report to work promptly at their scheduled starting time and not work after their scheduled stop time without prior approval from their supervisor.

It is the employee’s responsibility to sign their own time record to certify the accuracy of all time recorded. Supervisors will review and then sign the time record before submitting it for payroll processing. In addition, if corrections or changes are made to the time record, both the employee and their supervisor must verify the accuracy of the changes by initialing the time record, in order for the employee’s pay to be processed.

Exempt Employees
Exempt employees are required to complete a time-off report to record time off from work every pay period. The supervisor of the exempt employee will review and sign the time-off report before submitting it for payroll processing.