Add Breaks

Overview

If an employee forgot to subtract a meal break or unpaid break from their total daily hours, you may have to add a break to deduct the unpaid time from the time card.

Steps

1. Click on an employee’s name from the employee list screen of the Time Management Console to go to a time card.
   
   
   
   
2. To edit time details for an employee from the time card screen, click New Transaction.
   
   
   
   
3. From the New Transaction screen, select Add Hours.
4. Select the day from the Date drop-down.
5. Select the appropriate assignment from the Assignment drop-down.
6. Select BREAK from the Pay Code menu.
7. Enter a negative amount of time to be deducted in decimal format.
   • Example: Entering -0.50 to subtract 30 minutes for the break.
8. Add the necessary comments.
   • This is recommended for audit purposes.
9. Click Submit to submit the entry.
   
   

The break is represented as an adjustment on the time card. Your initials will show as the source (Src) of the change.

• In this example, the break deduction is noted in row 2.

Changes to the time card are also noted on the Employee Overview screen via the comments icon.

• Click the icon to view the changes and the date and time of change.