Adding a new time programme

This window allows you to create time programmes or working schedules. Please note that you should not have a programme exceeding 45 or 48 hours per week unless you have a very specific reason (farm workers may work up to 50 hours in peak season, provided that the period is followed by a 40-hour low season work week for the same length of time).

Time programme description

The name of the time programme.

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Day selector

Select the weekday to which the time programme applies.

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Working sessions/ breaks

This list shows the working times and breaks defined for the chosen weekday. This means that you will define working times and breaks for each weekday separately. You can also copy Monday's definitions to Tuesday, Tuesday's to Wednesday and so on.

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Allow flexitime

If you have a large number of shifts differing only slightly from each other (this can happen in a complex business such as a supermarket with a butchery and bakery as part of the same business) it may be a good idea to make use of flexitime. When doing this, you will be less specific about exact working times, while still retaining the ability to define breaks and the required number of working hours for each day.

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Copy Thursday

In the example above, Friday's working sessions and lunch break were entered individually and are about to be saved. If they are the same as Thursday's, all this could have been done in one operation simply by pressing the "Copy Thursday" button. This button (with varying day names) appears whenever the list of working sessions/breaks for a particular day is empty, and allows you to copy the details for the day preceding the currently selected one.

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