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Grace Periods before being marked Tardy

posted at 5/16/2012 11:11 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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This question involves the Manufacturing Industry.

I would like to find out what the norm in the Manufacturing Industry is regarding Grace Periods before being marked Tardy. We currently have a policy that gives a 3 minute Grace Period. In our Illinois Plant we give a 6 minute grace period. We are debating whether or not to change the 3 minute grace period or not. I do understand that LATE is LATE whether you are a minute late or 10 minutes late. However I am just trying to guage and see what the norm is around the country.

Liz
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posted at 5/17/2012 8:41 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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I don't believe in grace periods,  Tardy is tardy.  In 35 years of working at numerous organizations (including several in the manufacturing sector) I've never seen grace periods - except for one company, non-manufacturing, in a building where half the elevators were out of service for two months.  We instituted a five-minute grace period for that specific two-month timeframe only.
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posted at 5/17/2012 9:36 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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I have mixed emotions about grace periods.  One the one hand, I can understand that isolated instances can happen which might cause a late arrival of 5 minutes or so.  But on the other hand, I think a lot of people will take the grace period and that becomes the new starting time; eg, 8:06AM instead of the intended 8:00AM.

I think I'm with hrbth on this.
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posted at 5/17/2012 11:40 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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The boundary is wherever you put it. If you add a grace period, that changes the boundary.  So I agree with the other two. I am not in manufacturing, but am in a business where our customers expect the doors to be open at 4 am...there is no grace period on that or the customers are screaming at us!
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posted at 5/17/2012 12:24 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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I agree with all of you, unfortunately my HR Manager says Grace period is the norm in Manufacturing. I am trying to get ammunition for my point of view.
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posted at 5/17/2012 12:42 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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I've been in a number of manufacturing companies.  We never had a "grace" period.  What we had was a set number of tardies (ex 3 in a 4 month period) which would trigger disciplinary action. The number of tardies would reasonably accomodate those exceptional circumstances causing them.

Industries were high tech product manufacturing (computers/computer peripherals).
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posted at 5/24/2012 12:35 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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I agree with all of you, unfortunately my HR Manager says Grace period is the norm in Manufacturing. I am trying to get ammunition for my point of view.
Posted by evabraham


I've worked in a number of manufacturing companies too.  Your HR Manager is wrong.
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posted at 6/5/2012 12:40 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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At the Postal Service, certain installations have a five-minute leeway rule, for situations where employees have to clock in and a large number of employees are scheduled to report at the same time, to prevent someone from being late due to congestion at the time clock.  At those installations, an employee can clock in up to 5 minutes after their reporting time without being considered late.  Other than that, there is no grace period, nor should there be.
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posted at 6/5/2012 1:18 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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I consult with a lot of manufacturing companies throughout the US and in particular in the Midwest (IL included).
Late is late...none give a grace period.
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posted at 6/6/2012 6:07 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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Having spent 20+ years in manufacturing in two companies (Missouri & Kansas), I agree with the others - I have never seen a grace period as standard procedure.   I have seen and used systems that trigger progressive discipline based on a certain number of tardies in a certain period of time. 
Now, on the other hand, to be fair (and employees value fairness, as you all know!)  you should examine whether or not there is some situation that impedes employees' ability to clock in on time.  For example, massive road construciton along a route that a majority of employees must travel to work. Or, too many employees and not enough entrances and time clocks.  In one instance, we did have a sort of "unspoken" grace period because the company had to temporarily relocate during the flood of 1993 which resulted in much, much longer commutes for the employees.  We stopped worrying about tardiness for a couple of months until people got adjusted to the situation.    
   
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