Configuring Employee Breaks

Introduction

This article will guide you through understanding the Employee Beaks settings, which is available to view on talech.com.  Note: This is only supported for iOS registers.

How to configure what breaks employees can take, navigate to:

talech.com > Settings > Employees > Overtime and Breaks.  

In this section, you can configure both your overtime rules (by hours per day, days per week or both) and breaks. Each break has four attributes: 

• Enabled: determines whether to allow employee to take specified break.
• Duration: determines the length of time an employee can be on break.
• Type: either paid or unpaid.
• Frequency: how frequently an employee can take this break.

Creating a Break

To create a break follow the instructions below.

1. Go to talech.com.

2. Go to Settings.

3. Select Employees  and chose Overtime and Breaks.

4. Select '+ Add a break', Next specify the type and duration of a new break. 

5. Click the left checkbox to enable it.  

• Specify the length (in minutes) of the break. 
• Indicate whether this is a paid or unpaid break. 
• Specify the frequency (in hours) the break can be taken.  

If you wish to add another break, click "+ Add a break" and repeat the above steps.  

6.  Click the 'Save' button in the top right hand corner of the page.  

Editing a Break

To edit a break, change the values you wish and click the save button in the top right hand corner of the page. 

Note: You can also follow the "Employee Break Clock-in & Clock-out" guide to understand how to clock-in and clock-out.