December 4th 2023, Release Notes: HS| Mobile 5.96: Enforce Good Faith Estimate Requirement for Shifts

Summary

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Release date for all features: December 4th, 2023

Enforce Good Faith Estimate Requirement for Shifts

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles affected: - All employees at clients using Good Faith Estimates

What's Changing?

It prevents managers from making schedule edits from the Roster on the mobile app when Good Faith Estimates are enabled for a client. Employees must either have a good faith estimate for the scheduling week OR be excluded from having a good faith estimate in order to be scheduled.

Reason for the Change

Some cities Fast-Food ordinances do not include salaried or employees in training. These changes give managers the ability to properly manage those individual's schedules while enforcing the requirements that employees have a good faith estimate. 

Customers Affected

This feature is intended for customers adhering to Fast-Food ordinances for good faith estimates. 

Release Note Info/Steps

When Good Faith Estimates are enabled for a client:

• An employee must have good faith estimate or be excluded from a good faith estimate in order to be scheduled. 
• Managers will receive an error message if they attempt to schedule an employee that does not have a good faith estimate with an effective date for the scheduling week. 
• This scheduler will allow employees excluded from good faith estimate requirements to be scheduled without good faith estimate restrictions.