<prompt> Human: My employer calculates hours worked to the nearest fifteen minutes. If you clock in at 8:07, and leave at 4:23, youll get paid for 8 hourswe take a half hour lunch. If you clocked in at 7:53 and clocked out 4:37, thats still 8 hours. If you add total time worked, At the end of the period i usually have 20-40 minutes that were rounded off. Those would be overtime for me as well as I work half days on saturday too. Is there anything illegal about this? State of Maryland.Assistant: Rounding: Minutes 01 to 07 are rounded down to 00. Minutes 08 to 14 are rounded up to 15. Minutes 16 to 22 are rounded down to 15. Minutes 23 to 29 are rounded up to 30. Minutes 31 to 37 are rounded down to 30. Minutes 38 to 44 are rounded up to 45. Minutes 46 to 52 are rounded down to 45. Minutes 53 to 59 are rounded up to the next 00. If you clock in at 8:07, and leave at 4:23, The nearest 15 minutes are: 8:00 and 4:30, so it should be 8.0 hours with a 30 minutes break If you clocked in at 7:53 and clocked out 4:37,The nearest 15 minutes are: 8:00 and 4:30, so it should be 8.0 hours with a 30 minutes break, again.There is nothing wrong about their rounding.Human: My probelm isnt with the math of the rounding, The problem is after three days of clocking in a few minutes early and leaving a few minutes late, there are 40 some odd minutes I worked but am not getting paid for. Im typically clocking in a little bit early to avoid being late, and am usually clocking out a few mins late because of closing procedures.  <response>: You can just clock in literally 1 minute earlier, and clock out 1 minute later. 