Advanced Holiday Rules
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The Time and Labor Engine determines which hours should be considered Holiday based on three Evaluation Methods: Exact, Start Time, and Majority. This article explains how each method identifies hours worked as Holiday or Not Holiday.
and both group punch pairs together if the difference between the end of the first punch pair and the start of the next punch pair is 90 minutes or less.
For additional information on Holiday Rules see Time Processing Rules Priority: Holiday Rules.
Evaluation Methods
The examples below interpret the same Holiday (8:00 AM - 8:00 PM) based on the methodology used.
Start Time and Majority methodologies can only be used if you or your candidates are entering Time In/ Time Out. The Engine can't determine whether hours per day starts on or after a Holiday or whether the majority of an hours per day entry overlaps with a Holiday.
Exact
The Holiday with ungrouped punches evaluated by the Exact method: 4 REG
and 4 HOL. Only the time that overlaps with the defined Holiday is
interpreted as Holiday hours.
Start Time
The Holiday with ungrouped punches evaluated by the Start Time method: 5
REG and 3 HOL hours. None of the hours in the first punch pair are
considered Holiday because the employee's Start Time is before the Start
Time of the Holiday.
In this scenario, the grouping is key. If the start of the second punch pair occurred within 90 minutes of the end of the first punch pair, the hours would not be considered as Holiday. But since the second punch pair is over 90 minutes from the end of the previous pair and the Start Time of the second punch pair falls within the Holiday, all three of the hours are considered Holiday hours.
Majority
The Holiday with ungrouped punches evaluated by the Majority method: 3 REG
and 5 HOL hours.
The concept of grouping is crucial here because the punch pairs are evaluated against the Holiday independently. The first set of punches has five hours and 50% or more of those hours overlap with the holiday so all five hours are interpreted as Holiday. The majority of the second set of punches don't fall within the Holiday so those three hours are not interpreted as Holiday.