Employee Home Department

Every employee added to uAttend gets assigned to a home department, it is typically the department that the employee spends most of their workday in, such as Sales, or Manufacturing. The majority of the rules that affect timecard calculations, such as overtime and lunch deductions are applied at the department level.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The punch rounding rules set at the department level will apply to all punches, including breaks and lunches. If this is not appropriate for your organization, you may wish to disable this feature. It is your responsibility to comply with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
 

Notes:

• Employees will inherit the department-level settings from their home department.  This will determine their configurations for things like breaks, lunches, overtime, start and end zones, lockouts, etc.  This does NOT change when a department transfer is performed.
• When a home department is modified, upon recalculating the timecard, all time and attendance data (including the past) will also be modified.  Export and make a record of historical data prior to making a change that will impact the time and attendance data integrity.

To configure a home department for an employee :

1. Log in to the uAttend cloud portal with an administrator or supervisor (with permissions) profile.
2. Click on the People tab.
3. Click on the name of the intended employee or click the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner of the window to search for an employee.
4. Click the Job and Pay tab from the navigation panel on the left.
5. Click the drop-down menu and select the intended Home Department for this employee.
6. Click the SAVE button.