THREE WAYS YOUR SOFTWARE SHOULD SUPPORT MEAL AND REST BREAK COMPLIANCE
Team Software, Network Partner
By capturing electronic timekeeping data with your software, you’re able to catch and prevent violations before they happen — something that isn’t possible with manual timekeeping.
Timekeeping is an everyday concern for security companies. Your guards are clocking in and out of shifts across multiple locations. Your supervisors can’t be everywhere at once to ensure breaks are being taken by the right people at the right times. This doesn’t just have an impact on your individual employees — it also has an impact on your business’s financial wellbeing when it comes to paying for meal and rest break compliance violations.
Understanding the impact of these laws is especially crucial for security companies in?California, where violating meal and rest break laws can result in compensating employees for lost breaks with additional hours of pay. Here’s a list of three ways your software should support your business when it comes to meal and rest break compliance.
Timekeeping and Punch Types
Your meal and rest software should offer enhanced timekeeping and punch types to allow you to track your guards’ multiple unpaid and paid (otherwise known as on-duty) meals and paid breaks. You should also be able to see actual in and out times, and view, edit, and clean up your collected data in efficient and helpful ways when punch data must be corrected.
Reporting
Look for software with useful and informative meal and rest reporting to help determine who is and who isn’t in compliance with your company and/or state’s meal and rest laws. Reporting should be flexible to allow you to identify any or all violations such as meals and breaks that have been missed, are too short or not taken in a timely manner. The identification of and premium (or penalty) payment of the violations you identify according to your business policies should be a simple, streamlined process.
Notifications
Your software should be able to send notifications to the right people at the right time to support your company’s meal and rest compliance and minimize premium payments to employees. To ensure lunch breaks are taken in a timely manner, look for focused notifications that alert supervisors if a meal hasn’t been started after a certain amount of time into a shift. Guards should also be notified if they’re checking back into work before their lunch or break is taken in full.
When used properly, a holistic software solution ensures your timekeeping is accurate, easy to manage and in compliance with state, local, union or company-specific regulations. Contact TEAM Software at sales@teamsoftware.com to learn about how we can help you manage your meal and rest break compliance.