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4-10 Time Guardian v4.0 User’s Guide
Time Guardian was designed to accommodate a wide variety of overtime rules. You can cancel
all authorized overtime by clicking No to the question; Do you want to authorize your
employee's hours? Depending on your setup, the following settings may need to be
configured:
• Does overtime apply for this pay policy?
a. Overtime may be awarded daily after an employee works the defined number of hours.
b. Overtime may also be awarded weekly after an employee works the defined number of
hours.
• Do employees receive overtime when they work on holidays?
• Type of overtime:
b. Daily overtime after [enter number for hours/min]
c. Weekly overtime after [enter hours and min]
• Overtime is reset on:
a. At the start of a pay period
b. On a specific day of the week
This is especially useful if an employee is assigned to a Bi-Weekly, Semi-Monthly or
Monthly Pay Period and the Overtime rules are based on a seven-day cycle starting on
a specific day.
This setting is most common when an employee is assigned to a Weekly Pay Policy.
Also on the Pay Policy Settings screen is the “Advanced Settings” check box. Selecting this will
display the following screen:
Advanced Settings should only be changed if employees are scheduled to start work after
02:00 AM and you want those hours applied to the current day.
Midnight (00:00) marks the start of a new day. However, there are times when an employee is
scheduled to start on one day and end on another (i.e. start work at 10:00 PM Sunday and
leave work at 6:00 AM Monday).
Advanced Settings allow Time Guardian to account for a midnight day-change time and
calculate the number of hours correctly, placing the punches on the current day.
Using the example above, there are two scenarios where the hours can either be applied to
Sunday or Monday.
Scenario #1
If you want the hours applied to Sunday, then Sunday becomes the Current day and the hours
from Monday are shifted backwards to Sunday.
Scenario #2
If you want the hours applied to Monday, then Sunday becomes the Previous day and the
hours from Sunday are shifted forwards to Monday.