Rule: Maximum Hours Per Shift

This rule limits the number of scheduled hours that an employee can work in a single shift.

Overview

A shift is defined by the scheduling module implementation. Schedule compliance follows the same shift definition as the module that generated the schedule.

• The maximum shift length is 24 hours.
• The Maximum Hours Per Shift rule determines whether an employee has exceeded the maximum number of hours that the employee is permitted to work continuously. If the number of scheduled hours exceeds this limit during a single shift, a violation occurs for the shift.
• This rule counts only the scheduled hours of a single continuous shift, and does not sum the scheduled hours of multiple shifts in a single day. Each shift is independently validated against the Maximum Hours Per Shift rule value.

  Therefore, if an employee is scheduled 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM and then again from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM and the maximum scheduled hours value is set to 8, schedule compliance does not return a violation because neither shift exceeds the 8 hour value.

Violation Area

Violations count against the appropriate shift.

Example

An example would be to limit the number of scheduled hours to 8 for each shift.