Breaks / Rounding Tab

 

Some employers only have their employees punch in when they arrive at work and then out when they leave and give them forced breaks and lunch periods. If this is your practice, you can do that with the setting on the page above. In our example if an employee has worked at least 120 minutes, a 25 minute break will be taken off of their time when Total Time report and the exports to PayWindow and CSV are done. We also show a second break if they work over 240 minutes and a lunch if they work over 240 minutes.

 

Note: DO NOT ENTER BREAKS LESS THAN 21 MINUTES - Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks. However, when employers do offer short breaks (usually lasting about 5 to 20 minutes), federal law considers the breaks as compensable work hours that would be included in the sum of hours worked during the work week and considered in determining if overtime was worked. Unauthorized extensions of authorized work breaks need not be counted as hours worked when the employer has expressly and unambiguously communicated to the employee that the authorized break may only last for a specific length of time, that any extension of the break is contrary to the employer's rules, and any extension of the break will be punished.

 

You can force rounding for the start time and the end time for your employees. In our example above, the shift starts at 8AM and we've allowed 15 minutes grace period. So if they punch in up to 15 minutes early or late, the time punch will be 8AM. And we have the same arrangement for punching out at 5PM with a 15 minute grace period as well.