Business Example 3 - Guarantees Plus Rule
This example covers these business needs:
- Employees are guaranteed at least 5 standard shifts per pay period. Employees work shifts of varying lengths; the standard duration is defined in the SHIFTLENGTH employee UDF for each employee.
- An employee’s standard shift length includes a 15 minute break, which should not be included in the amount of time the employee is guaranteed.
- Pay periods are one week in length, and end on the Friday. Any guarantee premiums for the pay period are paid on the Friday.
Configuration
Condition: Is Day Condition with Day parameter set to Friday
Rule parameters:
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| *Time Codes | WRK |
| *Guarantee Period | option selected |
| *Use Guaranteed Minutes from | Employee UDF option selected with SHIFTLENGTH selected from the lookup. |
| Guaranteed Minutes Multiplier | 5 |
| Discount Minutes | 75 |
| *Premium Time Code | Assign time code option selected with PRM selected from the lookup |
Additional configuration:
In the left pane of the Quick Rule Editor, the option was selected in the Auto Recalc drop-down list and the was selected in the Recalculation Period drop-down list.
On each employee's configuration page (), the SHIFTLENGTH UDF contains the duration (in minutes) of the employee's regular shift.
Results
In this example result, the employee's standard shifts are 6 hour long, with a 15 minute break. The employee is scheduled one shift per day, Sunday to Friday. The employee works 4 shifts during the pay period, but is told not to come in for the shifts on Thursday and Friday.
The employee recorded 23 hours of work during the pay period (4 6-hour shifts, minus 4 15-minute breaks). Since the rule was configured with the Employee UDF option selected in the Use Guaranteed Minutes from parameter, the rule has to calculate the guaranteed amount of time. The calculation is: the value of the SHIFTLENGTH UDF multiplied by the Guaranteed Minutes Multiplier minus the Discount Minutes, or 360 multiplied by 5, minus 75. So, the employee is guaranteed 1725 minutes or 28 hours and 45 minutes.
When the rule fires on Friday, the end of the pay period, the rule pays the employee a 5 hour and 45 minute guarantee premium.
The premium is paid against the employee’s default labor allocations.