The purpose of this idea is to empower customers to post Overtime hours directly to an employee's timecard. This would be accomplished by making Overtime selectable in the Category drop-down menu.
For compliance purposes, an employee may be due Overtime pay even if they haven't met the threshold for Overtime per the OT Rule in place. A good example of this, which assumes the OT40 rule is in effect, is when the same employee works at multiple companies that have common ownership.
For example, Jane works for three different companies with common ownership. For the week she clocks 20 hours at Company A, 15 hours at Company B, and 10 hours at Company C. Jane worked a total of 45 hours and must be paid 40 Regular and 5 Overtime hours to be in compliance.
The problem is, since Jane hasn't exceeded 40 Regular hours in any one Company, all 45 of her hours will post as Regular by default. To work around this, you'd have to manually create a Punch Category called Overtime, make it OT Eligible, and write an OT Threshold Script that promotes the Category to Overtime immediately. This lets you "force" Overtime.
That would be a good workaround except, when you run reports, TWP reports any hours/dollars associated with the "forced" Overtime Category you created separately from the default or innate Overtime Category TWP typically uses . This leaves you with two separate Overtime totals on the reports and doesn't give the user a clear picture of total hours or costs. It also confuses them.
To circumvent the duplicate OT totals and having to create and script a separate Category for "forced" Overtime, if the innate Overtime Category TWP utilizes could be made visible/selectable to the user, that would allow for compliant pay practices and intuitive reporting.
Given the above, there is clearly a need for, and several benefits to, making the Overtime Category selectable for the customer. It augments timekeeping compliance and gives them full control over how they pay out their employees' hours. Thank you for your consideration!
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