Vacation, Holiday,Sick Day, and Bereavement Time Management

Managed Time Versus Worked Time

Vacation management is a function of software time clocks not found in mechanical time clocks. In addition to vacation time shopclock also manages sick days, holidays, and bereavement or personnel loss time. Collectively vacation days, sick days, holidays and bereavement time as opposed to worked time are referred to as managed time.

Managed time differs from worked time in two important aspects. First, it is not used in overtime calculations, and second it is assigned by the employer rather than recorded by the employee.

Using a Calender Makes it Easy
ShopClock makes the task of assigning managed time to any employee particularly easy by using a calendar. To assign a days worth of managed time to an employee the employer need only click on the appropriate calendar date. The number of hours normally worked by that employee per day is added to the employee’s time card for that date and the background color of that date on the calendar is changed. If a mistake has been made, it can be corrected by clicking on the same date a second time.

Vacation time is somewhat unique because of the need to schedule it such that key employees or too many employees are not gone at the same time. ShopClock makes this easy by showing which days other employees have scheduled vacation time on the same calendar used to assign vacation time to the selected employee
ShopClock also tracks the number of vacation hours available to each employee and employees can easily review scheduled and remaining vacation time when examining their time cards.