9/80 Over Time Rules

9/80 or compressed schedules allow employees to work more hours in the first 9 days of a 10 day (two week) work period, then take the last day off. For instance, rather than working 40 hours each week, employees could work 44 hours in the first week, then 36 hours in the second week, with that final Friday off. If you have employees working a compressed 9/80 work schedule you will want to use the 9/80 Over Time Rules rather than the regular Over Time Rules. The 9/80 rules will correctly compute overtime for compressed weeks, taking into account hours worked in the previous week.

Note: You cannot enable both the regular Over Time Rules and the 9/80 Over Time Rules for the same policy. There can be at most ONE type of over time rules enabled for a policy.

The following rules can be configured for computing over time:

Rule	Description
Weekly Hours	The maximum number of work hours per week considered "regular time", for example 40. Work hours over this value in a single week will be considered over time.
Midpoint	The time and day of the week that is considered the end of the week (or the midpoint of the two week cycle), for example Friday 12:00 noon. Hours worked after this will be counted for the next week. The selected day is usually taken off on the second week.
Leave	You can optionally include specific leave pay codes in the overtime computation. For instance, you might want holiday hours to be considered work when computing overtime. Just as is done for work hours, any such leave will be split if it spans the midpoint, with the latter portion added to the subsequent week's totals. For example, if your midpoint is Friday 12:00 noon, and you have 8 hours of Holiday running from 8AM to 4PM on that Friday, then you will end up with 4 hours of Holiday in the first week and 4 hours in the second week. If you include leave in work hour totals you can control how this leave is handled when it falls on the "day off" in the two week period. For instance, if you normally take the second Friday off, you can configure the system such that any leave (e.g. holiday) hours on this day are ignored with respect to overtime calculations: the hours will not contribute to total work hours or be split at the midpoint.

Important configuration notes:

1. If employees are not recording in/out times (just hours) then you need to specify the employee's "Scheduled Start" property in their profile for the compressed overtime rule to work properly. This is also true if you are including leave in overtime calculations. The scheduled start value is specified on the Employees properties page for each employee (or can be set in bulk via an import file).

2. If including leave in your overtime calculations you need to enable the database column for each leave pay code included. This is required in order for any split leave (leave that falls on the midpoint) to be stored properly. You enable the database column by editing each appropriate pay code on the Systems > Pay Codes page, clicking the Options link in the lower right corner, and checking the "Has report column" property.