Genesee County, Mich., will be converting its current employee tracking structure into a biometric time clock system. The new technology will record employee time and attendance through fingerprint identification, according to MLive.

Genesee has always used paper time cards, but it will now be sharing a biometric system with nearby Oakland County. Legislators expect that the change will save Genesee $217,000 a year without costing anything to taxpayers, the source reported. Any associated maintenance costs will be counterbalanced by the benefits of the fingerprint technology.

Using biometrics has been a growing trend in Michigan workplaces. Ten other cities and townships in The Great Lakes State have recently received funding to implement similar new employee tracking arrangements. According to MLive, last month, Flint, Mich., got a $1.8 million grant from the state to help merge technology systems with other cities.

Biometric time clocks are much more reliable than employee time cards. Investigations around the country by the Department of Labor have found that businesses are illegally changing workers' records. In early May, for instance, an Ohio auditor discovered that someone had tampered with the Cincinnati, Ohio, parks department time cards, as reported by Cincinnati CBS affiliate WKRC. Owed wages have still not been paid back to the employees.

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