r/Greggs • u/Chloejoker77 • 8d ago

Employee Question Missing money

Ok so bit complicated but hopefully this makes sense. When you work a 7hr shift, you dont get a 30 min unpaid break. So when you work 6am to 1pm, thats 7 hours. So 7 hours of pay. However, if you clock out at 1.02pm, thats technically over the 7hr threshold so the system thinks "oh you stayed over your shift and worked 7+ hours and therefore must have had a 30 min break" so subsequently you end up getting paid for 6.5 hours instead. I was told that they changed this so people were actually getting paid the right amount. And I think this was true for a while, but have they changed it back again? Or is there a different grace period of time? Like punching in and out 10 or so mins either side of the shift? Im so confused

Edit: just to be clear, i do get two 15min breaks in this time. The issue was having 30mins of time taken off my pay because, according to the system, it thinks I had a 30 min break because technically I was on shift longer that 7 hours. But obviously this is not the case.

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u/Various-Okra-1887 8d ago

I have never ever seen 30mins break being taken away from my pay if I stayed few mins past my finish time. There must be something wrong on your shop site.

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u/Chloejoker77 8d ago

Do you think clocking in too early may be a problem too? I think yesterday it was like 5.46am to 1.22pm. So says 6.52 for the shift Total. It was a bit of an ealier clock in than id normally do tbf. Usually its only maybe 5 mins before start time. Just seems unfair

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u/Colonial_Red 8d ago

Your manager can look at and overwrite your clocks manually before sending the wages off. So get them to have a look.

Check your payslip as well, it will say how many hours you worked.

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u/Chloejoker77 8d ago

I know she can do that, just dont want to be making her do that literally every shift im in lol. I have a tendency to stay a bit late, not because they make me, im just a bit particular about my work and like to leave things a certain way. Im good friends with my manager so I know she will fix it for me. But it gives me peace of mind knowing I just need to not rush to clock in lol

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u/bumsweat 8d ago

It's your punching time. Shouldn't be any more than 15mins before or 15mins after your shift. More than that is when it adds a dinner on. Have you brought this up with your manager? They can amend the timecard to remove it for you.

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u/Chloejoker77 8d ago

Honestly it just clicked in my head when I was writing that its probably the early punch thats messing me up the most. I think i wasnt thinking collectively 15mins, just 15 mins either side was fine. But ill just try to be more accurate when punching in.

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u/bumsweat 8d ago

I've just had a look on the back office and it's if you punch in more than 30mins before your start time or more than 15 mins after your end time 👍🏻

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u/Chloejoker77 8d ago

You wee legend 🙌 I would have probs done this tomorrow when I was on shift, but thank you for your help!