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HI Lisa, has anyone from Fourth got back to you on this query? I am interested as well.

Thank you,

Vera

​Hi Vera, not yet.

Kind regards

Lisa

Hi Lisa,

If your rotas run Monday to Sunday and you just have worked hours for everyone for the Monday, then you will need to remove the forecasted hours from the rotas for the other days, complete the divisions for the days anyway, even though they are blank, and submit to payroll. The furlough status won't override forecasted shifts.

Else you can not submit that rota at all, and load hours worked for the Monday directly into the payroll module.

Many thanks,

Sophie

Hi,

If I do what is mentioned by Sophie, I can't run payroll as some employees are off for the entire week. How have you managed your rota? Any advise would be welcome!

Thank you

Hi Florence

​We "went" from the Tuesday. What I had to do, was to go through each rota by division and then employee to delete shifts (marking them as OFF) for the rest of that week. I'm afraid it took me several hours one evening last week but there wasn't a shortcut. For rotas going forward, which we wont be needing, I have deleted them completely through to the end of April.

Depending on how many employees you have (we have approx. 500) this is a big job so I'd get it done asap if I were you.

Hope this helps and good luck,

Lisa

Hi Lisa,

Thank you for your answer and I have done that too (luckily we only have 50 employees!) but now when trying to run payroll it won't let us do it and we got an error message that employees can't be off all week, need to be absent or on holidays. So I have created a new absence type and will need to go one by one to put them absent.

KR,

Florence

Hi Florence,

If you are getting a message in the rotas that an employee can't be off all week, this is a global setting that your system administrator can switch off for you. It's in rotas> administration> global settings> disallow an employee to be off all week> take off the setting.

Many thanks,

Sophie