The Shift Maintenance frame allows you to create and maintain shift codes and payroll details for all work shift in your fleet organization. Employees, units, and locations can all have shifts in M5.
Shifts are defined for employee and non-employee shifts. They indicate the working hours or operational hours for the entity or employee to which they are assigned.
Employee shifts define the hours an employee is expected to be available for work and are used to calculate regular and overtime hours.
Unit shifts specify the hours a unit is expected to be available for normal use for the using department. The system will use the shift hours when calculating operational downtime information.
Location shifts define the hours of operation for a specific shop. The system will use maintenance location shift information when calculating maintenance downtime information.
To create a new Shift, enter a new number in the Number field. This value must be between 1 and 255. Enter a description, limited to 30 characters. From the Type dropdown, select the type of shift, Employee or Non-Employee.
Enter the shift Start Date. If time will be subtracted from employee planned absences, select the amount of minutes from the dropdown.
Day # - Denotes what position in the shift week the day falls. Shifts are created in 7-day increments.
Payroll Day - The approval day for the shifts work. It can be the shift start day or shift end day.
OT Start Day - Day overtime starts.
OT Start Time - Time when overtime pay rate is applied.
Start Day - Start day of the shift.
Start Time - Time of day the shift begins.
End Day - Day the shift ends.
End Time - Time of day the shift ends.
Schedule Shift - Shift type for shop planning purposes.
Pay Shift - If System Flag 5326 is set to N, this field will not be validated.
To make changes to an existing shift, enter or select a Shift Number from the List of Values.
After making applicable changes, select the SAVE button at the top of the frame to update the shift record.
You can delete a shift provided is not in use anywhere else in the system. If the shift is in use, you are unable to delete it from the system.
To delete a shift that is
not in use, enter or select a Shift Number
from the List of Values.
Select the DELETE button
at the top of the frame. The Action
Required window opens asking if you are sure you want to delete
the shift. Select Delete to confirm
the deletion. If the shift is in use, you will receive an error.
See the System Flags Table for a complete listing of system flags.
Labor Management Application User Training
Last Update: 6/13/16
NOTE: To view a list of System Flags and Role Privileges that may impact this screen, hover over the screen title in M5 to display the bubble help/tooltip. At the bottom of the bubble help/tool tip, there is a Settings hyperlink. Click that hyperlink to display the list of flags and privileges.
Additional training and technical documents on this subject may be available in the Resource Files area.