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Meal Policies
Meal policies are used when you want the software to automatically deduct
a meal break from your employees' time and attendance hours totals. This
makes it so that employees do not need to punch in and out at the time
clock for their meal breaks.
There are two different types of meal policies: "Meal Window,"
and "After x Hours."
Meal Window
A Meal Window uses a specified window of time during which the meal deduction
is taken. If an employee clocks in or out at the time clock during the
meal window, the automatic deduction is overridden, and the actual punches
are used.
A Meal Window can be set up to automatically deduct the remaining amount
when an employee takes less than the required number of minutes.
Example: The Lunch Amount is set to "60 Minutes." The lunch
window is from 11:00 to 13:00. The meal policy is set up to automatically
deduct the remaining lunch amount when an employee takes less than the
specified lunch break. The employee clocks out for lunch at the time clock
at 11:30, and clocks back in at 12:15, overriding the automatic lunch
deduction. Since the employee only clocked out for 45 minutes, the remaining
15 minutes are automatically deducted from the employee's hours for the
day, bringing the total lunch amount to 60 minutes.
After x Hours
An After x Hours meal policy deducts a set lunch amount from an employee's
hours total after they have worked the specified number of hours for the
day.
Example: A meal policy is set up to deduct 30 minutes from employee's
daily hours total after they have worked 4 hours for the day. An employee
clocks in and works for 6 hours. An automatic lunch deduction of 30 minutes
is taken from the employee's hours total for the day. If an employee clocks
in for work but goes home sick after 3 hours, no automatic lunch deduction
is taken because the employee did not work the required 4 hours for the
day.
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