Salary-can pay be docked

[Ozozw21]

Hi guys, after some advice

So, I’m working for a company which employs around 35ish people. Everyone is salaried and contracted to 40 hours a week.
When I first started many years ago, the money wasn’t brilliant but it was sort of an understanding that you could finish once the work was done.
However, now with minimum wage consistently rising the company has a clock in system to monitor hours.

With a rise again in April the company has sort of threatened staff that if they are not doing their hours, even it’s it’s an hour or two under a week, that pay will be docked accordingly

Can they do this?

Another question, can my employer say there isn’t work available and force a day unpaid if I’m salaried.

Many thanks all advice greatly appreciated

[ULA]

If you are clocked in for the hours you are contracted to do then your employer is required to pay you for them.

Again if you are contracted to 40 hours per week and they say no work is available for e.g. 5 hours they cannot decide not to pay you for these. In the same way as you are contracted to work 40 hours they are contracted to pay you.

All they can do if they do not have work is to ask you to take annual leave which they can do so long as they give you double the notice for the amount of time they want you to take. So to ask you take a day as holiday they need to give you two days notice.

[Ozozw21]

Can they dock pay then if not all hours are worked?
There’s a lot of travelling, so sometimes you may get back early by 30/45 mins, which then adds up throughout the month.

[ULA]

You need to be working the hours that you are contractually paid to do. If you get back early then you need to be given work to do to fulfil your obligation to work 40 hours