There has been a growing trend of stories online this week where frontline retail and service staff report being asked to clock out or simply not report time spent completing closing tasks, or otherwise working after the doors of the business were closed and locked. 

“No overtime.” How many of us have heard that phrase uttered? Even as we are nonsensically asked to prepare the store for the following day, a task that requires working once the doors have shut — even though our shift was supposed to finish right at that same time.