Amano Time Guardian Series, Installation And User Manual

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Time Guardian Series
– Setup Wizard
Once a meal deduction is defined, you have the option of whether the employee will punch
out during the meal period. If so, you must define whether rounding will apply to these meal
period punches. When an employee punches IN and OUT for their meal, the window that
these punches occur in must be defined so that the meal will not be deducted twice. To
prevent meal punches from being deducted twice, check the box next to the question “Do
employees punch at meal time?”
The concepts for meal rounding are the same as those used in the Rounding Rules tab. If
rounding is to be used for meal punches, enter the desired Unit and Point. You must also
enter the number of hours an employee must work before the meal period in the “Hours to
work before start of meal window” field.
For example, if the scheduled start time is 9:00 AM, and the Hours to work is set to 3:00,
then the meal window for this employee would start at 12:00 PM. If the scheduled start time
is 7:00 AM, and the hours to work is set to 3:00, then the meal window for this employee
would start at 10:00 AM.
Enter the Length of Meal window. This is the length of time between an employee's meal
punches that will be applied toward the meal rule.
Enter in the Meal Grace. This is the number of minutes that an employee can return late
from a meal before additional time is deducted.
Note: If you wish to visualize the properties of Rounding, view the Rounding Demo by clicking
on the button on the Pay Class Rounding Rules and Meal Rules
screens from Setup Wizard for Pay Class. The following Rounding Demo view will
appear:
Clicking in the dropdown boxes for Hour and Minute will set the actual time clock display,
while clicking in the dropdown boxes in Unit and Point will enter the rounding rules. This
presents a real time visual display of actual time versus rounded time.
The following example illustrates how the Meal Rules tab from Pay Class can provide control of
time utilized for meals by providing such items as;
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Auto meal deduction
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Normal meal time
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Meal rounding settings
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Meal punching with grace time
A Time Simulation tool has been included on the Meal Rules screen to test your settings. For
example, hourly employee Bill Jackson is displayed in the following table using the same
rounding formula of
Unit = 15 and Point = 7 with various scenarios for meal rules. For this
example a normal meal time = 45 minutes.