Time & Attendance Tag

Have you ever rehired an inactive employee but could not find them in TimeWorksPlus because you could only see active employees?  Finding and viewing terminated employees is as easy as using the employee list filter. View Terminated Employees A list of active and inactive employees can...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued guidance on the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to employees who telework from home or from another location away from the employer’s facility. The Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) 2023-1,...

Question:   How Can I see an audit of who edited a specific timecard? Answer:  It is possible to see edits that were made to a timecard, ranging from the type of edit it was to the login that performed the edit. Open the employee...

The pandemic continues to cast its shadow on the workplace.  Microsoft’s 2022 global Work Trend Index study shows that 47% of the respondents are more likely to prioritize personal life and family over work than they were in pre-pandemic times.  And with 29% of workers citing...

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, whether employees should receive on-call pay depends on whether the time spent on call qualifies as "hours worked." If so, employees must receive at least the federal minimum wage for each hour spent on call, plus overtime for all...

It’s no secret that workplace stress is a contributing factor to a variety of issues.  In fact, according to a recent American Psychology Association's Work and Wellbeing Survey, 59% of workers experience negative impacts on work performance due to work-related stress.  And that’s just the tip...

It is hardly surprising that employees would prefer to work 28 hours a week instead of 40. The latest argument for implementing a four-day workweek does not call for compressing the time between Monday and Thursday (or any other combination of days) into four equal...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2021, “at least one parent was employed in 89.1 percent of families with children, up from 88.5 percent in 2020 but below its 2019 value of 91.4 percent.” The number of parents who are part of the...

The outdated method of manually collecting employee data makes businesses vulnerable to errors, costing them time, money, and effort better spent elsewhere. It also creates opportunities for time theft, which, according to The American Payroll Association (APA) and Zippia, affects 75% of businesses, costing them up...

Question:  We have received a lot of holiday time off requests, more than we can approve. Can we approve some but deny others? Answer: In general, yes. We recommend having a policy for time off that explains how employees can request time away from work and what...