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Meal Penalty #

Time Rule Overview#

The purpose of the Meal Penalty time rule is to apply a premium if the employee did not take their meal after the number of hours defined in the value of the time rule. For more flexibility, the band now can hold the first interval for meal if this is different from the regular interval for meal. It will take into consideration the day of the week, or if this is null the time rule will be applied on all days.

Requirements / Features#

• There are two variations of this time rule:
  • If the specified premium is a fixed premium the premium will be applied once for every number of hours defined in the value.
  • If the premium is a variable premium the time rule will apply the premium after the number of hours defined in the value has been reached and will apply it to each hour thereafter until a break is reached or the shift has ended.
• The Value field will no longer be used to hold the day of the week, instead the day of the week has been turned into a column labeled DAY.
• The Meal Penalty time rule has been updated to handle this new feature. If the Day column is null, the time rule will be applied to all days.
• The Meal Penalty time rule requires the Meal time rule to be set up so that it can determine what time is considered as unpaid meal time. With this set up, users will also see the meal time once the time sheet has been brought into pay transactions.
• If a premium is not defined, the time rule will check to see if the "Meal Sched" time rule has been set up. If it has, the Meal Penalty will use the premium off of the qualifying Meal Sched band.
• The Meal Penalty time rule has time rule helpers which may be set up, but are not required. For further information on these helper time rules please see their associated project documents.
  • Meal Sched
  • Min Meal Length
  • Max Meals Award
  • Penalty Fix Interval

Additional Info #

Band

• only one band is allowed

Value

• interval for meals in hours

Frequency

• predefined as ‘Every Shift’

Implementation#

The time rule should be set up in IDWR as shown below. See Time Rule Improvements for additional information regarding IDWR.

Band	From	To	Value	Day	Time Code	Premium	Action	Time Code Set
First interval for meal(hrs)	No	No	Interval for meal (hrs)	Allowed	No	Yes	Add	Allowed