What is the 7 minute rule at Home Depot?
The seven-minute rule allows employers to round employee time to the nearest quarter-hour. The seven-minute rule is a payroll rule that allows employers to round down employee time of 1-7 minutes. However, employee work time of 8-14 minutes must be rounded up and counted as a quarter-hour of work. The highest roundup that employees can do legally is 15 minutes. You are not allowed to round up or down to, say 30, or 60-minute increments. To comply with the 15-minute limit, you must also follow the 7-minute rule, which means using the 7-minute mark as a guide in the rounding process.