Authorities in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, have said that city employees who fail to register their fingerprints for attendance five times a day will have their salary docked.Madinah Mayor Muhammad Al-Amri said the decision to have employees register their fingerprint five times a day was taken to ensure punctuality and productivity in the workplace.”A delay of half an hour to an hour from registering the fingerprint will lead to consequences if the delays add up to more than 10 hours a month. There are still employees who are resentful of the decision and prefer to only sign in and out, having only two fingerprint registrations a day,” said Al-Amri to the Saudi Gazette.He added the first fingerprinting will be done at the time of arrival at the work place, the second will be carried out between 9 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., the third between 10.30 a.m. and 11.00 a.m., the fourth between 11.45 a.m. and 12.15 p.m. and the last one while leaving the office after completing working hours.”The rate of employee attendance has risen the past week to 55.5 percent after implementing the new fingerprints system. The rate of employee attendance during the first day of the past week was 38 percent. On the second day it has increased to 42 percent. On the third day it has increased to 46 percent. On the third day of the week the rate of employee attendance reached 52 percent,” said Al-Amri.

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