by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Nov 4, 2013 | News, User Testimonials
I found an interesting news article on the weekend entitled “The Paper Time Card Checks Out” about a recruitment company that had halved the size of their payroll department through the use of their homegrown computerized time clock system. While I am no great advocate of home grown time clock systems it’s great to see some real cost savings realized by a good system. I’ve written a few times about what sort of time and money could be saved with a good time clock system but it thought it would be worthwhile doing so again. So I give you Saving Time and Money with Time Clock MTS. Moving onto the Time Clock MTS User Reviews page you’ll notice that it’s had a bit of a facelift. I’ve also been posting up new reviews from happy Time Clock MTS users at the rate of one or two a week. Recent additions include those from Mayor’s Mansion Inn (a bed and breakfast in Tennessee), Sacramento Koi (a fish pond equipment manufacturer), and Willowbrook Dental Associates (a long time dental user from Pennsylvania). If you’re a Time Clock MTS user and you’ve got something to say about the software then please let us know! We’ll post it up on the testimonials page and give you a mention on our Facebook page. Thanks for supplying a great product at a great price. No more mechanical time stamping machine to tweak and try to find ribbon for!!! Our needs are not very technical, so, we will be sticking with the product we purchased from you. Thanks, again. Mark LaddOwnerMayor's Mansion InnTennessee,... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Oct 23, 2013 | How To
Does your Time Clock software help you to comply with mandatory sick leave laws and requirements? The mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey has signed legislation requiring that businesses in the city with 10 or more employees must offer 5 paid sick days (40 hours) per year. The legislation comes into force on January 24 2014, for detailed information about the law see Jersey City Earned Sick Time Law. Other cities and states that have mandatory paid sick time rules include Connecticut, Seattle in Washington, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Portland, Oregon. With these types of mandatory paid sick leave laws coming into play it’s important that a business has a system for tracking and accruing sick time in place. A good time clock system like Time Clock MTS has built in tools to allow you to both record sick time taken, accrue sick time, and tell you how much sick time an employee has left. The Jersey City Sick Leave Ordinance requires 1 hour of paid sick leave to be offered for every 30 hours worked with a cap of 40 hours (5 days) per year. The sick leave accrual begins at the hire date but employees cannot take this paid sick time until 90 days or 3 months after the hire date (unless allowed by the employer). I thought it would be good to look at how you’d set up Time Clock MTS to comply with the new Jersey City paid sick time laws. 1. Create a Sick Leave Employment Type The first step of the process is to create an Employment Type that will accrue sick... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Oct 18, 2013 | News, User Testimonials
Because of the volume of feedback about Time Clock MTS we’ve been receiving recently I thought it was worthwhile giving our time clock user reviews pages a facelift. So I’ve spent the last few days reaching out to those people who have been kind enough to provide feedback in the past getting their company logos. I’ve relaid out the page and given things a general spruce up. You’ll also notice that the sidebar of the website now includes a box containing two items of time clock user feedback along with their company logo. Don’t forget if you’ve got something to say about Time Clock MTS (good or bad) then please contact us and let us know what you... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Oct 2, 2013 | News
You may (or may not) know that Time Clock MTS has a Facebook page. We use this page to for good news stories, updates about Time Clock MTS (and our other software), and every Tuesday we post up a tip that can help you use Time Clock MTS better. We’ve been doing this for the last few months and (in our opinion) it’s a bit of fun as well as being useful to the new and experienced users of our timeclock software. So, please take a look at the Time Clock MTS Facebook page, like it, and you’ll get tips on using the software better every Tuesday on your FB... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Aug 29, 2013 | How To, Using the Software
A user of Time Clock MTS wanted to export their time clock data to Proliant Payroll Service. Proliant forwarded their import file requirements to me and it turns out that Time Clock MTS can export directly to Proliant using the built time clock export file format creator. Proliant Time Clock Export Format 1 The first format Proliant can import is an aggregate format that is simply a line per rate type per employee. For example, Employee badge 146 works 40 hours of regular time and 10 hours of overtime during the week. The company’s code for regular earnings is R1 and the code for overtime is O1. The resulting record in the time clock output file would be: “146”,”E”,”R1″,40.0 “146”,”E”,”O1″,10.0 Here’s how you’d setup an export format to produce this data: Note that we’ve set the format type to AGGREGATE and the “E” field is a hard coded field required by Proliant. Proliant Time Clock Export Format 1 The second format Proliant can accept is line by line listing of all time punches across a time period including the punch dates and times. For example, an employee with badge ID of 51 works the following hours in a week: 8/1/2013, In : 9:30AM, Out: 5:30PM 8/2/2013, In : 9:00AM, Out: 5:00PM 8/3/2013, In : 8:45AM, Out: 10:45AM 8/3/2013, In : 10:45AM, Out: 4:45PM 8/4/2013, In : 9:00AM, Out: 5:00PM 8/5/2013, In : 8:30AM, Out: 4:30PM A resultant data file for this would be: “51”,”E”,”Reg”,8.0,,,,,,,,,,,”8/1/2013 9:30:00″,”8/1/2013 17:30:00″ “51”,”E”,”Reg”,8.0,,,,,,,,,,,”8/2/2013 9:00:00″,”8/2/2013 17:00:00″ “51”,”E”,”Reg”,2.0,,,,,,,,,,,8/3/2013 8:45:00″,”8/3/2013 10:45:00″ “51”,”E”,”Reg”,6.0,,,,,,,,,,,”8/3/2013 10:45:00″,”8/3/2013 16:45:00″ “51”,”E”,”Reg”,8.0,,,,,,,,,,,”8/4/2013 9:00:00″,”8/4/2013 17:00:00″ “51”,”E”,”Reg”,8.0,,,,,,,,,,,”8/5/2013 8:30:00″,”8/5/201316:30:00″ Here’s how you’d setup an export format to produce... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Aug 28, 2013 | Tips and Tricks, Using the Software
Overtime pyramiding or overtime doubling is the (often mistaken) practice of counting the same hours against two different overtime limits. The most common example of overtime pyramiding is using hours that have been counted against daily overtime to calculate a weekly overtime limit. This is especially common because daily overtime is usually a state level requirement and weekly overtime is a federal requirement. If you’re having trouble understanding pyramiding in this context it is more easily explained through the use of an example. Let’s consider an employee that works five 10 hour days in a single week, has a daily overtime limit of 8 hours and a weekly overtime limit of 40 hours. Day Hours Worked Overtime Pyramiding (Normal Hours / Daily OT Hours / Weekly OT Hours) Overtime No Pyramiding (Normal Hours / Daily OT Hours / Weekly OT Hours) Monday 10 8/2/0 8/2/0 Tuesday 10 8/2/0 8/2/0 Wednesday 10 8/2/0 8/2/0 Thursday 10 8/2/0 8/2/0 Friday 10 0/0/10 8/2/0 Total 50 32/8/10 40/10/0 So we can see in this example that if we pyramid overtime the employee is due to be paid 32 normal hours, 8 daily overtime hours, and 10 weekly overtime hours. If we do not pyramid overtime hours then the employee is due 40 normal hours and 10 daily overtime hours. Is Pyramiding Overtime the Correct Practice? In almost every case pyramiding overtime is NOT the correct way of calculating overtime. Of course this can vary by negotiated contract but in my experience employers are generally never going to sign an employment contract that allows for overtime pyramiding. It’s worth looking at some examples... read more
