I recently was hired by a company and have just become aware of a “rule/poilcy” they have regarding time I can clock. If I am in the office and I'm not doing anything, they want me to clock out until there is something to do. I'm allowed to leave early if my manager allows it. But for instance today I come back to my office from working out in the field and I'm waiting to talk to my manager on what my next steps are for the day. So Our operations Manger comes over to tell me, while I wait I need to clock out because I'm not doing anything. But I can't leave because neither have the operations manager or my manager given me the okay. So my question is, is this legal? Can they make me stay at the office and wait, while not clocked in? I've been looking a labor laws but I can't really tell what I'm looking at, could someone guide me in the right direction? To clarify I ran this by my manager and this is definitely their policy.