Combination Rules

Combination rules tell the system how to pay employees when conditions, such as overtime, overlap. Combinations can include overtimes, zones, schedule deviations, and Rest Between Shift (RBS) rules.

Use the Combination Rules page (Administration > Application Setup > Pay Policies > Work Rule Building Blocks > Combination Rule) and the following information to set up combination rules. There are three tabs: Select Items, Configure Combinations, and Counts Toward Overtime.

Select rules for the combination rule by moving rules from the Available Items box to the Selected Items box.

View the possible combinations of the selected rules and specify how to pay each combination.

  • Combination Items — The rules selected for the combination rule.
  • Click All Combinations to see the combinations for all of the rules, or click each rule separately to view the combinations for an individual rule.
  • Combination — Displays the combinations available for the selected rule or all rules.
  • Gets Paid As — Select one kind of worked time in the combination to specify a worked time for combinations that do not pay any differently combined than one of the items by itself.

For example, Daily OT and Weekly OT together pay the same as Weekly OT by itself. Select Weekly OT for the Daily OT + Weekly OT combination so that the system pays the combination exactly like Weekly OT.

Select Unique to choose a different paycode. Select different paycodes in the Pay Code Distribution editor.

Select the worked times in a combination rule that can count toward overtime. Optionally, use Advanced Settings to select how to count worked times that occur simultaneously.

  • Worked Time — Lists the worked times included in a combination.
  • Counts Toward Overtime — Select Yes or No to specify whether the type of worked time counts toward overtime.
  • Overtime — The overtime rule toward which the worked time selected for overtime counts.
  • Advanced Settings — Used to specify how to count types of worked time that occur simultaneously. When there are daily and weekly overtime types of worked time, this setting determines which overtime has precedence and when an overtime type is capped.
  • This option is only available when one or more of the worked times is set to No in the Counts Toward Overtime column. Click the arrow to use the Advanced Settings options:
    • Count if at least one worked time counts toward overtime. If Regular is Yes, that regular worked time is included in the counts for overtime. This option is the default when Regular=Yes.
    • Count only if all worked time is applied toward overtime. If Regular is No, that regular time is not included in the count for overtime hours. This option is the default when Regular=No.
  • Either select one of these options to change how overtime is counted, or accept the default.