Attendance

The traditional definition of attendance refers to the time an employee is present at the workplace. A broader definition refers to the employee time devoted to work, whether physically at the workplace or at an off-site location (meetings outside the office, working from home in accordance with flexible working arrangements, etc.).

There are different arrangements for determining employee attendance: fixed schedules, flexitime, shifts, overtime, time on call.

There are various means for reporting attendance, allowing measurement of the employee’s attendance time, such as time clocks, access control, biometric readers, phone-based attendance reporting, Smartphone Apps. and more.

The data is collected by the Attendance system which analyzes and calculates the working hours, absences, overtime, etc., according to the employee’s employment agreement, collective agreements, and the labor laws, and transfers the data to the payroll system, to determine the employee’s entitlement to payment of wages.

In most organizations there are several models of employment agreements, such as fixed schedules, a global agreement, flexitime, etc. These require a computerized system to provide an accurate calculation of hours of attendance for all models.

Employers are obligated to specify the number of hours worked in the pay stub of each employee.

An employer who does not indicate the number of hours an employee worked in the pay stub, or indicates a number of hours that is not accurate, could find himself exposed to disputes by the employee.