Time & Attendance
This page allows you to enable or disable the option to use Rest Breaks (Paid) and prevent shifts from containing more than one break. These settings will flow through to your time and attendance devices.
Single Break
The Single break option ensures both timesheet shifts and actual shifts can only contain a single break. If you are using a payroll system that only supports single breaks, enabling this option will satisfy this requirement of the payroll system.
Enabling this option will add the option for paid rest breaks to be used when employees clock out for a break, or when managers edit and approve actual shifts. If you disable this option, only unpaid rest breaks will be used.
By default, the Rest breaks option is disabled.
Paid Rest Breaks and the Weekly Scheduling View
You can manually edit timesheets and actual shifts after completed timesheet shifts in the Weekly Scheduling View. This includes Jobs, start and finish times of events, and comments. The following screenshot
The +Add button will add a new event row to the bottom of the list of punches. The Remove button will remove the bottom row event.
It’s important to note that a paid rest break is counted as hours worked, and as such is included in all KPI calculations as if it were time worked. If wage-escalation is being used, the pay rate for a Rest Break (Paid) is decided by whatever the pay rate was before starting the Rest Break (Paid).
Short Break Prevention
This feature is currently only available on Time Clock for Windows. This feature is not yet available for the android or iPad versions of Time Clock
Short Break Prevention can be set to stop employees returning from breaks if they have not been on break for the required period
Check the box for Short Break Prevention and enter the minimum length for unpaid and/or paid breaks
This setting will prevent the employee from returning from their break before the minimum length has passed. The employee will be presented with a message on the Time Clock advising them when their break finishes to allow them to punch back in