Pay Rules

Pay rules determine the conditions under which employees are paid for common pay types. Pay rules execute in a standard order.

Available Pay Rules

The pay rules listed in this table are available within Workforce Management Classic.

Rule Rule Type Scope Comments
Banking Banking Daily Allows employees to bank time to a policy in Time Off.
Breaks Time Clock Meal and Break Daily Identifies meal or break rule for Time Clock type timesheets. Includes meal and break waiver configurations.
  Time Entry Meal and Break Daily Identifies meal or break rule for Time Entry type timesheets. Includes meal and break waiver configurations.
  Meals and Breaks Daily Identifies meals and breaks for employees who have a schedule with split shifts. (Recommended)
Call Back Call Back Daily Indicates the rules for how Call Back punches are calculated. Requires Time Clock type timesheet.
Day Split Day Assignment Daily Assigns punches to the correct timesheet day, and splits worked time across days.
Default Time Codes Default Time Codes Daily Specifies which time code punched hours are assigned to. Applies to time clock timesheets only. Allows you to turn off time clock errors and exceptions (for example, “no show”).
Guaranteed Daily Hours Daily Provides a top-up to a specified number of hours per day.
  Weekly Hours Date Range Provides a top-up to a specified number of hours per week.
Holiday Public Holiday Daily Calculates how much public holiday pay an employee should receive on a holiday.
Miscellaneous Overlap Promotion Daily Allows hours with overlapping times (that is, premiums and worked hours) to be promoted to another type or merged. Typical use is for premiums to be promoted to premium overtime.
Overtime Averaging Period Date Range Identifies overtime based on average hours worked in a period.
  Consecutive Day Daily Promotes hours if employee works for "x" consecutive day.
  Daily Average Daily Identifies overtime based on daily hours worked in the previous "x" weeks.
  Daily Schedule Daily Identifies overtime based on time worked over regularly scheduled hours per day.
  Daily Threshold Daily Promotes hours worked after a daily threshold (that is, OT1.5 after 8 hours in a day).
  Rolling 24 Hours Daily Promotes hours worked within a rolling 24-hour period.
  Weekly Average Date Range Identifies overtime based on weekly hours worked in the previous "x" weeks.
  Weekly Schedule Date Range Identifies overtime based on time worked over regularly scheduled hours per week.
  Weekly Threshold Date Range Promotes hours worked after a weekly threshold (for example, OT1.5 after 40 hours in a week). Supports multi-week overtime.
  Weekly Unscheduled Date Range Identifies overtime for unscheduled days.
  Zoned Schedule Daily Identifies overtime outside of regularly scheduled shift.
  Zoned Overtime Daily Promotes hours if hours worked are within a specific zone (for example, OT1.5 if hours are worked within 12 a.m. - 5 a.m.).
Premium Shift Premium Daily Creates a premium when worked hours qualify.
  Split Shift Daily Identifies calculated dollars premium when the employee has a minimum gap in the day (for example, employee works two shifts in a day and the gap between the shifts meets the threshold).
  Spread of Hours Daily Creates a flat rate premium when there is a specified spread of hours in the day.

Pay Rules Ordering

Pay rules run in a preset order with some configuration.

Order Rule
1 Shift Grace (a version of Time Clock Rounding)
2 Time Clock Interval Rounding
3 Punch Pairing
4 Time Clock Duration Rounding
5 Time Clock Meal/Break
6 Time Entry Interval Rounding
7 Time Entry Duration Rounding
8 Time Entry Meal/Break
9 Meals and Breaks
10 Day Split (can be configured to run one time but in multiple places)
   
11 Shift Premium
12 Holiday
13 Daily Guarantee
14 Spread of Hours Premium
15 Call Back
16 Split Shift Premium
17 Weekly Guarantee (can be configured to run one time but in multiple places)
18 Day Split (can be configured to run one time but in multiple places)
   
19 Zoned Schedule Overtime
20 Daily Threshold Overtime
21 Daily Schedule Overtime
22 Daily Average Overtime
23 Zoned Overtime
24 Consecutive Day Overtime
25 Rolling 24-hours Overtime
26 Weekly Threshold Overtime
27 Weekly Unscheduled Overtime
28 Weekly Schedule Overtime
29 Weekly Average Overtime
30 Averaging Period Overtime
   
31 Weekly Guarantee (can be run multiple times)
32 Day Split (can be configured to run one time but in multiple places)
33 Overlap Promotion
34 Banking
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