3.1 Breaks
Breaks
This section describes the use of breaks with ‘Use Max on Breaks’ selected in the system configuration. This configuration is recommended as it can cater for all break conditions.
There are two types of breaks: Automatic and Paid.
An ‘Automatic’ (unpaid) break will automatically deduct the ‘Total Duration’ specified from all of the permitted time categories (‘Allow Auto Breaks to deduct’ on the Day Program Allocation tab). The break time will only be deducted if the employee has time worked between the ‘minimum’ and ‘maximum’ amount of time specified. (In the screenshot on the left it is between 5 and 15 hours).
The other type of break is a ‘Paid’ break. With this break applied (and it applies to all time category allocations), employees will be able to clock out and then in again during the break range (explained in the Day Programs section), without being penalized (losing time). They will only be allowed to clock out a limited number of times, controlled by the ‘Max breaks per day per time category’ setting. In the example on the left, this would be a typical lunch break. Here too the breaks will only take effect if the employees work.
In the event of frequent clockings for breaks, usually as a result of a turnstile, break limitations need to be set in place in order for JT to not subtract this break time taken.
In the screenshot above, the ‘Total Duration’ is the sum of all permissible breaks during the time span (allocated in the Day Program). The ‘Max breaks per Day per time category’ limits the number of times the employee may break (regardless of how short the break is). The ‘Max duration per break’ specifies the limit of each individual break, before deducting the time taken over and above this limit. The number of breaks taken can be counted by adding a counter to ‘Increment the counter when Break is Activated’. If the ‘Do not apply when max duration exceeded’ option is checked the exceeded break will not apply i.e. a person would be short the allowed break plus however much over it they went.
Below are the results of the above break being applied in three different scenarios: Only the break above has been allocated for the day in each scenario.
Scenario 1: The employee takes only one break, but for twelve minutes. JT will deduct two minutes.
Scenario 2: The employee takes eleven breaks for two minutes each time (twenty-two minutes in total), JT will deduct two minutes as there is a limit of ten individual breaks.
Scenario 3: The employee takes seven breaks of ten minutes each (70 minutes in total), JT would deduct ten minutes, as the employee is only granted 60 minutes in total.
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