Daily Overtime 24 Hour Rule

Specify a comma-delimited list of tokens. Each token consists of an hour type and duration in minutes in this format: HTYPE=#, HTYPE=#.

For example, specify REG=600,OT1=9999 to configure the rule to assign the OT1 overtime rate after the employee works 600 minutes. The rule assigns the REG rate to the first 600 minutes employees work and then the OT1 rate to any time worked after that.

You can specify several tokens in a list to configure the rule to assign different rates when the amount of time employees work in the day reach different thresholds. For example, you can assign overtime after employees work more than 10 hours and double-overtime after employees work more than 14 hours.

By default, the value is REG.

Work details that are marked with one of the specified time codes are discounted or subtracted from the total amount of time employees must work before earning overtime.

For example, if employees earn overtime after working 9 hours a day, but an employee records 3 hours of work details with a discount time code, the employee will earn overtime after working 6 hours.

If the code is included in the Hour Set Description list in the hour set, the code will get paid and the time will be discounted. Choosing one or the other is important to guarantee proper behavior.

By default, this parameter is null and the rule assigns overtime by changing the hour type of work details to an appropriate rate, as defined by the Hour Set Description parameter. For example, if the parameter is REG=540,OT1=9999, employees who record more than 540 minutes of eligible work details earn overtime. The hour types of eligible work details above 540 minutes are converted to the OT1 hour type and the employee is paid a higher rate.

Specify a premium time code to configure the rule to insert a premium for any overtime earned, instead of updating the work detail with the appropriate rate. For example, if a time code named DOT has been set up in the application for the overtime premium, specifying DOT inserts a premium with the DOT time code. The length of the premium equals the amount of overtime the employee earned, according to the conditions in the Hour Set Description parameter. If the parameter is REG=540,OT1=9999, employees who record more than 540 minutes of eligible work details earn overtime. The amount of overtime equals the length of eligible work details above 540. An employee that works 600 minutes earns 60 minutes of overtime, and the rule creates a premium that is 60 minutes in length. When the rule is configured to insert a premium, the rule does not change the hour types of overtime work details.

• Excluded/included in other overtime rules.
• Distinguished as details that produced the overtime.

This parameter accepts one of these values:

• Specify the time of day in the format YYYYMMDD HHMMSS. The parameter ignores the specified date and checks only the time portion of the string so that 19000101 can be used in all cases, followed by a space, and the time you want the 24-hour time period to start. For example, specify 19000101 050000 to start the 24-hour time period at 5:00.
• Specify the employee value field in the application that defines the time, in the format emp_valX, where X is the number of the emp_val field. Emp_val1..20 can be used. The time that is specified in the specified emp_val field should be in the format YYYYMMDD HHMMSS. The parameter ignores the specified date and only checks the time portion of the string so that 19000101 can be used in all cases, followed by a space, and the time you want the 24-hour time period to start. By defining the start time in an emp_val field, you can configure the rule so that the 24-hour time period starts at different times for different employees. If an emp_val setting is supplied, but no value is found, an error is thrown.
• Specify 24_HOUR_RESET to configure the rule to determine the 24-hour start time dynamically using this algorithm. If the difference between the first eligible record on the current day and the first eligible record of the previous day is greater than 24 hours, the current day's first eligible record's start time becomes the 24-hour start time. Otherwise, the rule looks back until a day off, or a gap of greater than 24 hours, is found. The maximum number of days the rule looks back is defined by the Max Days Look Back parameter.
• Specify PREVIOUS_DAY_START to define the 24-hour start time as the start time of the first eligible work detail of the previous day. If there are no eligible work details on the previous day, then the start time of the first eligible work detail of the current day is used.

Generally, you configure three instances of the rule to cover the different conditions that can occur before, during, or after the 24-hour start time, such as the day being a holiday, weekend, or regular work day.

Select one of these options from the drop-down list:

• BEFORE_START_TIME: Calculates only the work details that occur before the 24-hour start time.
• AFTER_START_TIME: Calculates the work details that occur during the 24-hour period (after the 24-hour period start time and for the next 24 hours).
• AFTER_24HOUR: Calculates the work details that occur after the end of the 24-hour period (24 hours after the 24-hour period start time).
• ALL: Calculates all work details.