I had a 4am-8 am shift today and left without punching out. When I realized I went back at about 10:40am and was told in clerical to do a punch correction. Im worried because will it still count as me hitting compliance even If I wasnt working?
Punching out at the end of your shift has nothing to do with compliance. Not taking your 30 in time is a compliance violation. Some states require you take your 30 before you hit five hours of work, in others it's six hours. Just do a punch correction and you'll be fine.
Well, it does in the sense where when you approach 5 or 6 hours depending on state, you come to a "punch out or take a meal" point. Either will work but if you do neither you'll hit compliance. In this case though you'll have a missed punch for End Work that you'll fix with the punch correction, and never even show up on the compliance report. So you'll be fine, missed punches happen.