Works payroll can enable breaks to activate between set times

A civilian member of staff has been sacked for fiddling his overtime at Devon and Cornwall Police. The force confirmed that a senior detention officer at Launceston police station was dismissed earlier this month. Superintendent Chris Brown, the head of the force’s criminal justice department, chaired a hearing that ran over two days and the allegations were found to be proven. Superintendent Brown said: "The allegations were to do with the unauthorised taking and entitlement of both leave and overtime claims.”

Matters of pay, hours and overtime are straightforward owing to software contained in Time and Attendance South West’s complete time and attendance payroll and clocking systems. You can set breaks to activate between set times, and/or after a minimum number of hours have been worked. Groups are used to define sequences of shift patterns. Rolling Groups repeat a block of shift patterns. The block can contain any number of days or weeks. Periodic Overtime is used to calculate overtime on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis.