Minimum Hours Per Shift Rule

A shift is defined as a block of continuously scheduled time which an employee is expected to work. The Min Hours Per Shift rule determines whether an employee has met the minimum number of hours that he or she is expected to work continuously. This rule checks total shift length against the minimum hours value, regardless of whether activities within the shift are paid, unpaid, working, or non-working. The system shows a violation if the employee has been scheduled for less than his or her minimum hours per shift.

This rule counts only the hours of a single continuous shift, and does not sum the hours of multiple shifts in a single day. Each shift is independently validated against the Min 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 5:00 PM and the min hours value is set to 4, the Schedule Validation returns a violation. Although the first shift is 4 hours, the second shift is only 3 hours, which violates the minimum 4 hour requirement.

Two adjacent shifts with the same assigned job and department will be merged into a single shift upon refreshing the schedule.

If you validate the schedule against the Min Hours Per Shift rule prior to refreshing the schedule, each shift will be evaluated against the rule independently. If you validate the schedule against the Min Hours Per Shift rule after refreshing the schedule, the one (merged) shift will be evaluated against the rule.

If this rule is set with the Min Hours Per Shift value of 8 hours, the following examples demonstrate the Schedule Validation report results.