Time management questions

Time Management Queries

What is Attendance & Absences Quota?

Absence Quota:
An employee's entitlement to a certain absence. The quota has a limited validity period, and is reduced by each recorded absence. Attendance Quota: Determines an employee's time-restricted entitlement to certain attendances. One such example is overtime approval. Recording an attendance of this type reduces an employee's entitlement

What is Substitutions?

A substitution is employee working time that deviates from planned working time and/or is paid at a different rate because the employee works at an alternative position. Substitutions allow short-term deviations to personal work schedules, as well as different payment for an employee, to be recorded in the system. Substitutions can be set up regardless of whether the absent person is actually being replaced or substituted for temporarily.

What is Availability?

Description of when a service employee is or is not available. The resource planner uses availability as background information when scheduling a service employee.

What are Attendance & Absence Types?

Grouping together of employees' scheduled attendances and actual attendances according to the reason for the attendance. Attendances can also be grouped for other personnel-related reasons, such as for employee time accounts and for valuation of personnel times.

How do we record a Overtime?

Overtime approvals can restrict the amount and the exact point in time when working time is recognized as "overtime." The type and amount of overtime compensation also depends upon this criteria. The normal working time of an employee is used to determine overtime. Normal working time can also be calculated according to the specific time periods used to perform weekly or monthly overtime calculation analyses.

What is Attendance & Absences Counting Rule?

Att Counting Rule:

Statement that determines deduction days/hours and payroll days/hours from attendance days/hours. An attendance counting rule is made up of several attendance counting rule items.      

What is the difference among work schedule, daily work schedule and work schedule rule?

Work schedule: The work schedule define an organization works timetable, and contains information on working and
break times for group of employees.

Daily Work Schedule: It defines the start and end of working time of the day.

Work Schedule Rule: WSR defines the period work schedule in more details. The Employee Subgroup, Personnel Subarea for work schedules and Public Holiday calendar are taken into account. 

What is counting rules?

Counting Rule for Abs/Attn. - Specifies conditions that must be fulfilled for counting rule to be chosen, and specifications that
decide how the attendances/absence are counted to determine the payroll days or hour.

What is time quotas?

Time Quotas. - It is related to absence and attendance. It is required at the time of grouping of 'Employee subgroup for Time
quota' and 'Personnel Subarea for Time quota'.

Is absence/attendance quotas are part of time quotas?

Yes.  

What is TMW & what are its functions?

Time Manager's Workplace is the option for time administrators to enter the time datas, it is mainly for maintaining the time events in decentralized. Using intutive ID they will enter the time events and also absences, OT.

What is Rounding Rule?

It is a rule to round the absence and attendance hours which will be attached to Counting Rule and then assign to Deduction Rule.

What is Quota deduction?

Quota deduction is the deduction of employee's absence from the entitlement for any base period.

What is Quota Compensation?

Quota Compensation is how the quota is compensated either by off or by encashment.