Your payroll has a default working pattern and may also have one or more additional working patterns. The default working pattern is assigned to each of your employees automatically. However, if the default working pattern isn't suitable for a particular employee, you can override it in their employee record.
If an employee works a different working pattern in each week over several consecutive weeks, you can set up a sequence of working patterns in their employee details record so that each week has the correct working days and hours. A working pattern sequence repeats automatically until it reaches a week in which another sequence has an 'effective from' date.
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Assign a single working pattern
On the menu bar, click Processing then click Employee Details.
Next to the Surname box, click browse and click the relevant employee.
Click the Working Patterns tab.
Double-click the Working Pattern cell in the first row of the grid, then select the working pattern you want to apply.
Click Save, then click Cancel.
Assign working patterns sequentially
On the menu bar, click Processing then click Employee Details.
Next to the Surname box, click browse and click the relevant employee.
Click the Working Patterns tab.
Double-click the Working Pattern cell in the first row of the grid, then select the first working pattern you want to apply.
In the Effective From box, enter the date for when this working pattern begins.
Click Add, then select the next working pattern you want to apply.
In the Effective From box, enter the date for when this working pattern begins.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each additional working pattern you want this employee to have.
Click Save, then click Cancel.
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