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TimePilot Newsletter No. 73: December 2024

News and info for users

of TimePilot time and attendance systems

From the TimePilot 5 Help files...



Working with Holiday Schedules in TimePilot Central

The holiday season is beginning and holiday schedules are a prime topic for our support staff. Below is a reprint from the TimePilot 5 help files describing how to set up and maintain holiday schedules. You can find this article--and a lot more information and videos about other aspects of the software--at our Support Center.

What's a holiday schedule?

The holiday schedule is a list of holidays recognized by your organization. The list is used by the TimePilot software when employees are paid for holidays or if they are eligible for overtime pay when they work a scheduled holiday.

The holiday schedule was created while using the Setup Assistant, which appears the first time you start your TimePilot software. You can edit your holiday schedule—adding or removing holidays—by clicking on the "Setup" tab > Holidays tab.

You can get to the Holiday Schedule screen by clicking 'Setup' on the left side of the screen, then 'Holidays' in the tabs that appear across the top.

For a condensed view of your holidays, click the "List View" button at the top right of the screen. See below for an example.

To manually add a holiday to the schedule you can either double-click the date on the calendar or click the "Add a Holiday" button from the holiday schedule screen. You can streamline the process of adding holidays for the current year and future years by clicking on the "Select Holidays from a List" button. See screenshot below.

From the list check the holidays and years that you want added to the schedule, as well as the number of hours for which the employee should be paid. You can always remove a single holiday from the schedule. This is simply a nice shortcut and a big time saver.

By the way, if your organization gives employees their birthdays as paid holidays, the software uses the birthdate you entered in the employee's profile (click the "Optional" tab on the "Employees" setup screen).

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Questions about TimePilot products, answered by our support technicians.

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Q. What are “employee licenses”?

Q. Is there a way to have an employee not automatically receive holiday pay?

Q. When an employee clocks in at our Extreme Blue clock, the lights on the clock flash green and then red. What does that mean?



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In Egypt, archaeologists have found one of TimePilot's ancestors: A register of workmen's hours dating to approximately 1250 B.C. It records the work hours of 40 people who were building a pharaoh's tomb and includes reasons for employees' absences. Some of the reasons include illness, deaths of relatives, brewing beer and "scorpion bit him."

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Be glad you didn't work in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1853. If you did, your workday would start at 6:30 a.m. and end at 6:30 p.m., six days a week. You got a break on Saturdays in December: You ended work at 3:50 p.m.

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