Glossary

employee

A person who works for the company and is identified by a unique identification number.

hour type

A code that specifies how to pay the employee for a period of time. Workforce Management defaults are Regular Time, Overtime (1.5 x Base Rate), Double Time (2.0 x Base Rate), and Unpaid.

irregular time code

A time code that a system administrator marks to be tracked in Exception reports and on the daily timesheet.

overtime

Any increase in an employee's pay rate as compensation for working longer than their regular shift or week. Overtime is recorded in Workforce Management with hour types that system administrators set up as indicating overtime.

pay group

A group of employees who are treated similarly by payroll. Payroll groups are segments of the employee population for whom payroll processes can be run at a given time.

sub team

A team that is defined as a part of a larger team.

team

A group of employees who have the same security permissions within Workforce Management. Team members also have the same supervisor for tasks such as approving timesheets.

time code

A code that is used to classify the activity that an employee performed during a period of time. Common codes record work and break time, vacation, and sick days.