2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

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bobs
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2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

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I have the standard California overtime policies which were created by default upon installation, specifically:
  • CA - Daily >12hrs (2.0X)
  • CA - Daily >8hrs (1.5X)
  • CA - Weekly >40hrs (1.5X)
  • CA - 7th Consecutive Day (1.5X)
  • CA - 7th Consecutive Day >8hrs (2.0X)
  • US - Holiday (1.5X)
Our workweek starts on Monday. We have a case where an employee worked 8/hrs per day Monday-Saturday, and on Sunday they worked 6AM-10AM and 2PM-5PM for a total of 7 hours.

TimeTrex is calculating the pay for Sunday as 4 hours at 1.5X and 3 hours at 2.0X, rather than 7 hours at 1.5X as I expect.

Experimentation shows that the 3 hours of 2.0X overtime:
  • Is based on the excess of 8 hours from start-time to end-time on Sunday.
  • Occurs only if the Monday-Saturday work time is at least 40 hours.
Is this a bug, or am I failing to understand something here?
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Re: 2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

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Can you please post a screenshot of the employees timesheet?
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Re: 2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

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mikeb
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Re: 2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

Post by mikeb »

I have escalated this issue our developers to investigate further.

It does seem to be related to having multiple overlapping overtime policies combined with a non-paid lunch. In this case there are three overlapping policies:

Weekly > 40
After 7 Consecutive Days
After 7 Consecutive Days >8hrs

If you disable the last policy it will likely work as expected, for this case anyways.
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Re: 2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

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Our developers have confirmed the issue, and it will be resolved in the next release of TimeTrex, likely due out in a week or two.

In the mean time, you may be able to use the work-around mentioned earlier.

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Re: 2X overtime triggered by start/end of workday rather than hours worked

Post by bobs »

Thanks for the prompt response @mikeb.

And, yes, I've just left a review.
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