Time & Attendance - Release Notes

Updated default columns in Employees view of Review Pay Period

The default columns displayed in the Employees view on the Review Pay Period screen have been updated to provide more relevant pay period and scheduling details. The new default columns include:

• Employee Information: Name, Emp ID, Status, Pay Group, Pay Type, Points.

• Actual Hours: Regular, OT, DT, Premium, Other Hours, Total.

• Scheduled Hours: Regular, OT, DT, Total.

These changes are applied automatically when users access the Employees view.

Resolved file name issue with Import Earnings

In some instances of previous releases, the Import Earnings process in Review Pay Period did not allow file names that contained a period (.) punctuation mark.

The software has been updated to resolve this issue.

Improved support for punch corrections across open pay periods

In previous releases, the punch corrections feature in the Time Clock was limited to the single open pay period configured in the property settings. As a result, employees were sometimes unable to submit corrections for valid missed punches in the current open pay period. With this update, the software now considers all open pay periods for a property, allowing employees to submit punch corrections for any eligible date within those periods. This ensures more accurate and flexible correction workflows for both employees and managers.

Resolved zero earning issue in time cards

In some instances of previous releases, when the max running value was set to 0 in the Day of Year Benefit Accrual work rule, employee time cards incorrectly displayed 0 as the earning.

The software has been updated so that when the max running value is set to 0 in the Day of Year Benefit Accrual work rule, employee time cards display no earnings, as expected.

Clarity improvements to audit information for punch corrections

In previous releases of the Review Time Card screen, both accepted rejected punches and accepted punch corrections were recorded in the Audits tab as "Accepted Punch Correction."

To improve clarity and differentiate these actions:

• When a rejected punch is accepted, the audit will now display "Accepted Rejected Punch."

• When a punch correction is accepted, the audit will continue to show "Accepted Punch Correction."

This improvement ensures that users can easily distinguish between these two types of approvals.

Resolved issue with tip pools

In some instances of previous releases, when users tried to associate tip pool types to a tip pool, the date ranges did not correctly populate.

The software has been updated so the users can successfully associate tip pool types to tip pools.

Filtering rejected punches in Review Pay Period

The Review Pay Period screen now includes a new Rejected tab that you can use to filter the employee list to only employees with pending rejected punches that have not been reviewed or acknowledged. The Rejected tab contains the following information:

• Employee name

• Employee ID

• Status

• Pay group

• Pay type

• Number of rejected punches, which is calculated as the total number of rejected punches for the employee during the selected period.

Note: The Rejected tab appears only for the current pay period.

Updated default validation for time card earnings against accruals

In this release of the Review Time Card screen, the software now automatically validates new earnings against future approved accruals by default. This enhancement ensures that users cannot add more earning hours than the employee has accrued.

This functionality, previously available only by contacting your Unifocus Client Success Manager (CSM) to enable it, is now activated for all users.

Note: Contact your Unifocus Client Success Manager (CSM) if you would like to deactivate this default functionality.

Resolved tabbing issue for recalculating tip pools

In some instances of previous Tip Pools releases, users encountered an issue while trying to recalculate a tip pool. After entering a value and pressing the tab key, the entered value was deleted.

The software has been updated so that when users enter a value for tip pool recalculation and then press the tab key, the value remains in the field, as expected.

Resolved tip pool issue

In some instances of previous releases, the Tip Pools screen did not correctly save new tip pool amounts.

The software has been updated so that new tip pool amounts are correctly saved, as expected.

Performance improvements to Tip Pools

In some instances of previous releases, users experienced slow performance when recalculating tip pools.

The software has been updated to improve the performance of tip pool recalculations.

Stability improvements to time cards

Various improvements have been made to enhance the stability of the Review Time Card screen and resolve issues that caused shift errors.

Correct reason text in Rejected Punches tab of employee time cards

In some instances of previous releases of the Review Time Card screen, the Reason field on the Rejected Punches tab displayed incorrect information about the reason.

The Review Time Card software has been updated so that the Reason field on the Rejected Punches tab displays the correct information for the reason, as expected.

Increased system threshold for active employees

In previous releases, transactions in various modules and screens in Unifocus software were limited to 2100 active employees.

In this release, the software has been updated to increase the threshold for active employees processed in various transactions in Labor, Planning, Scheduling, and Time & Attendance.

Confirmation message when approving all shifts

When you approve shifts on the Review Pay Period screen, the screen displays the following message:

This will approve all unapproved shifts for the employee that you have access to. Are you sure you wish to continue?

You must either cancel or confirm.

Corrected amount and total calculation on time cards

In some instances of previous releases of the Review Time Card screen, the Job Summary tab included incorrect calculations of totals and amounts. The Amount field combined earnings and hours, rather than displaying each on separate lines. The Total Cost field included the cost of actual and scheduled hours, rather than only actual hours.

The software has been updated so that amounts are correctly calculated and displayed in appropriated labeled columns.

Resolved error when viewing cross-property time cards

In some instances of previous releases, users encountered an error when they opened a time card for cross-property employees and attempted to selected a different period.

The software has been updated so that users can open a time card for cross-property employees and select a different period.

Resolved punch-to-schedule issue

In some instances of previous releases, employee punches were not correctly associated with their scheduled home jobs.

The software has been updated so that employee punches are correctly associated with their schedule home jobs.

Performance improvements for modifying employee punches

This release of Review Pay Period features performance improvements to punch modifications for existing employees.

Pay period selector in employee time cards

The Review Time Card screen for each employee now includes a planning period selector. This improvement allows managers to change planning periods directly in the time card rather than returning to the Review Pay Period screen to select a different time frame.

Performance improvements to punch corrections

In some instances of previous Review Pay Period releases, users encountered slow performance when modifying punches in employees' time cards.

The software has been updated to improve the performance of punch corrections.

Additional time card details are available to all users

In a previous release, Unifocus introduced the following buttons on the Review Time Card screen:

• View Employee Details—Selecting this button displays additional details about the selected employee.

• View Effective Work Rules—Selecting this button displays all work rules associated with the selected employee.

These improvements, which allow managers to stay on the employee's time card and view critical information without going to other screens, were available by request only.

In this release, these buttons are available to all Time & Attendance users.