Select Special Rates to open the special rates configuration screen for the selected Rule Set.

• Pay employee base when rate is lower: Enable this field to pay the employee's base rate when a special rate is lower that the employee's base rate. This is used when a special rate has been allocated to a timesheet entry.
• Apply highest rate to day when worked over a number of hours per day: this field allows a special rate to be applied to an entire day (i.e. pay the rate for the whole day), when the employee has worked over a certain number of hours for that day.  For example, if an employee has a number of shifts they work on a specific day

Example

(DAY 1)

• 12/07/2014 – 09:00 – 12:00
  • 09:00 – 10:00 (normal hours: $10)
  • 10:00 – 12:00 (level 2: $20)

•  12/07/2014 – 15:00 – 18:00
  • 15:00 – 16:00 (level 2: $20)    Employee has now worked over 2 hours for this level
  • 16:00 – 18:00 (level 3: $30)

 

• 12/07/2014 – 18:00 – 23:00
  • 18:00 – 19:00 (normal hours: $10)
  • 19:00 – 23:00 (level 1: $15)

 

In the above example, if the ruleset was as follows:

 

The resulting payroll entry would be as follows:

Note that the level 2 rate of $20 has been applied because the hours worked by the employee exceeded 2 hours.  By the time they had worked the 15:00-18:00 part of their day the highest rate at that point in time, being $20, has been to the entire day (excluding the portion of their day whereby $30 is higher).