Using the Honor Employee Fixed Status rule with other rules
When using the Honor Employee Fixed Status
rule, the optimizer attempts to assign the fixed shifts to employees regardless of the other
rules selected. Rules that are set as constraints may be broken due to the fixed shifts. For
example, an employee would be assigned to their fixed shifts even if they exceed the maximum
number of hours allowed in a schedule period. If an employee's fixed shifts violate a hard
constraint rule, the optimizer fails to create a schedule. This happens because the fixed
shifts make it impossible for the optimizer to find a schedule solution that satisfies the
rule.
The Honor Employee Fixed Status rule causes specific outcomes when used with
these other rules:
Fixed shifts with the Honor Availability rule
Fixed shifts are assigned to employees even if the employee is unavailable during the time of the fixed shifts.
Fixed shifts with the Maximum Schedule Budget rule
Care should be taken when designing schedules with fixed shifts that must work within a
budget. The optimizer always assigns fixed shifts, and the cost of fixed shifts are counted
towards the schedule budget. Each fixed shift reduces the amount of budget available to
generate shifts. Fixed shifts are assigned even if the combined cost of the fixed shifts is
higher than the budget. This causes schedule creation to fail when the Maximum
Schedule Budget rule is used as a hard constraint.