About Work Times

Work times for special, casual, standby, or split work can be updated as needed so that employees are paid correctly.

You can't edit work times for scheduled revenue service runs that haven't been split.

System properties control whether you can change sign-on and sign-off times, clear and report times, travel times, and wait times for pieces of work, and whether you can look up wait and travel times. System properties also specify whether the system should check the consistency of entered work times. For example, the system can check whether the report time, travel time, and wait time before a piece of work equals the difference between the sign on time and actual work start. If these times aren't consistent, the system can provide a warning or prevent you from saving the values.

OPS Time Component Defaults ancillary data allows you to define default values for work times.

When editing work times, if the sign on time for a piece of work is the same as the actual start time, and you change one of the times, you must change the other time to match in order for the operator to be paid correctly. Similarly, if the sign-off time is the same as the actual end time, and you change one of the times, you must change the other time to match.

Before changing travel times, check your agency policy. Some agencies pay travel time for only one direction of a run since drivers don't always travel to the garage between pieces of work. For example, operators might stay at a location to have lunch between pieces of work. In this case, for a two-piece run with four travel times (two ins and two outs), the operator might only be paid for two travel times. However, if a driver is absent for the second piece of work and an extraboard operator takes over, the operator should be paid for travel times in both directions and not be penalized by the policy.