This is a question from a previous job as a hotel housekeeper. It's not my present job anymore, but I was wondering if this was illegal or not, as I was thinking about this even long after quitting. My employer expected all housekeepers to be 15 minutes early each morning and weren't allowed to clock in until 9:00 am. That was because they told us they had a meeting every morning in the laundry room that we would miss otherwise and that the clean sheets were first come, first serve, so if we arrived late, not to complain if we got there and had to wait on sheets to be cleaned. Sometimes, I would wait all day and still not have sheets at the end of each shift because the laundry room was so slow. Regardless, is it wrong for a company to do this? Is this common practice in other jobs?