User guide

Time Guardian Series – Advanced Meal Module 13-1
Chapter 13: Advanced Meal Module
Advanced Meal Module Introduction
The activation of the Advanced Meal Module provides the ability to setup complex scenarios for
meal and/or break deductions on an automatic or punch basis. When this module is activated,
the shift module is also active.
Meals are the deduction of hours taken from an employee or hours given to employee for meal
and breaks. The meals will be broken up into 3 categories meals, breaks, and coffee breaks.
There are two ways in which the deduction can take place either by the fixed or automatic
method. In fixed method the times when the meal occurs is set and the difference between the
start and end is deducted. In the automatic method different time windows are setup to see if
employees punch for the meal. If the employee punches then amount setup for the automatic
deduction taken away from the employee works hours. If the employee does punch in the
windows then no time is deducted, but there is setup feature that allows the user to deduct the
automatic time even though the employee did not punch for it.
The sections of the Time & Attendance Software affected and/or features added from the
activation of this module include:
• Shift Rules
− Exception Template
− Meal Template
 Fixed Meal
 Flex Meal (Interval, Window, Sequence, Terminal)
 Meal Credit
 Meal Penalty
• Location/Terminal
− MTX-15 Terminal (Break, Coffee break Meal options sent to the terminal)
• Global Edit
− Punch Type
− Meal Type
User Interface: From shift link in tree view only exception templates and meal templates
can be created and assigned to a shift template