Non-Productive Hours Setup

When employees are not at work, they are considered non productive, and these hours are known as non-productive hours. Examples of non-productive hours are vacation, holidays, sick leave, and unpaid leave. Depending on corporate policy and local labor laws, employees are paid for some of these hours, and not paid for others.

• Hours when employees are neither working nor paid, such as unpaid leave, do not need to be tracked by the Budget Creation module, because there is no cost to the employer, so they are not included in the plan.
• In contrast, the Budget Creation module can use actual historical data for hours when employees are paid but not working to estimate the future cost of these non-productive hours.

The Budget Creation module identifies and estimates non-productive hours based on how you configure the time codes and hour types in the Payroll Settings for data that originates in the Timesheet:

• The Budget Creation module includes the specified time codes in its estimated cost of non-productive hours.
• The Budget Creation module excludes the specified hour types from this estimate.

Each type of non-productive hour maps to a column in the FCST_ITEM database, and is displayed on a column on the Worksheet.

The following table displays the default non-productive hours, the corresponding included time codes and excluded hour types, the corresponding column in the FCST_ITEM table in the database, and the corresponding column on the Worksheet.

Non-Productive Hours	Included Time Codes	Excluded Hour Type	Column in FCST_ITEM Table in the Database	Column on the Worksheet
Vacation	VAC VAC-PAY	UNPAID	FCIT_VAC_HOURS	Vacation Hours
Holiday	HOL	UNPAID	FCIT_HOL_HOURS	Holiday Hours
Other Non Productive Hours	SICK TRN (training) BRK (break) PGR (paid grace) LE (left early) REST (paid rest time) LATE	UNPAID	FCIT_OTHER_HOURS	Other Hours

You can modify these default settings so that they correspond to your corporate policy and local labor laws, as described in the next section.