"How many minutes of tolerance does the law set?" is one of the questions SME owners ask me the most, and they almost always come convinced that there is a magic number. There isn't. The Labor Contract Law does not say 10, nor 15, nor 5 minutes. Here I explain where the myth comes from, who really sets the tolerance in your company, and how to build a policy that is fair and, above all, defensible if it ever ends up in a claim.