When the EBA type "Traditional Award" is selected, by default shifts are either:

This section allows you to add additional shift types:

By default, when a shift is not Saturday, Sunday, or a Public Holiday and it starts within the day timeframe it will be assigned the Day payroll shift type.

The Day shift uses three different payable hours;

The payable hour used depends on the hourly limit for that day.

Set the 'Day ordinary hours limit' and the 'Day overtime hours limit' to customise when a different payable hour is used.

By default, when a shift is not Saturday, Sunday, or a Public Holiday and it starts within the afternoon timeframe it will be assigned the Afternoon payroll shift type.

The Afternoon shift uses two different payable hours;

The payable hours used depends on the hourly limit for that day.

Set the 'Afternoon ordinary hrs limit' to customise when a different payable hour is used.

By default, when a shift is not Saturday, Sunday, or a Public Holiday and it starts within the night timeframe it will be assigned the Night payroll shift type.

The Night payroll shift type uses two different payable hours;

The payable hour used depends on the hourly limit for that night.

Set the 'Night ordinary hours limit' to customise when a different payable hours is used.

The break duration for a shift is specified in dockets.

Breaks are typically removed from the total hours of the shift as they are counted as unpaid breaks.

If the field 'night shift paid break' is greater than zero it will not reduce the break time by the specified amount on night shifts.

Shifts with the same EBA in a pay period where five consecutive Afternoon shifts are worked will become 'Consecutive Afternoon' payroll shift type.

Hours are placed in 'Consecutive Afternoon Ordinary' up until the 'Afternoon Ordinary hrs limit', then any hours after that will be in 'Consecutive Afternoon Overtime'.

Saturday, Sunday or Public Holiday payroll shift types are counted in the 5 consecutive afternoons but remain their own payroll shift type.

Shifts with the same EBA in a pay period where five consecutive Night shifts are worked will become 'Consecutive Night' payroll shift type.

Hours are placed in 'Consecutive Night Ordinary' up until the 'Night Ordinary hrs limit', then any hours after that will be in 'Consecutive Night Overtime'.

Saturday, Sunday or Public Holiday payroll shift types are counted in the 5 consecutive afternoons but remain their own payroll shift type.

When a shift is on Saturday it will be assigned the Saturday shift type.

This is based on the day of the week and does not consider the "Week Breakdown" selection.

The Saturday shift type uses two Day payable hours;

The payable hours used depend on the hourly limit for that day.

Set the 'Day overtime hours limit' to customise when a different payable hour is used.

When a shift is on Sunday it will be assigned the Sunday shift type.

This is based on the day of the week and does not consider the "Week Breakdown" selection.

The Sunday shift type uses one Day payable hour;

Public Holidays are defined by Traffio. You can find a list of public holidays under your depot:

Public holidays are assigned based on the state defined in the depot.

A shift is automatically assigned a 'Public Holiday' payroll shift type when it matches a date defined in the public holiday list of the booking depot.

Currently, you must have at least the 'Public Holiday' toggled on in the "Payable Hours & Allowances Display Columns" table to see

Payable Hours used with 'Public Holiday' only

All hours in the shift will be allocated to the 'Public Holiday' payable hours, regardless of where the start time falls in the timeframe.

Payable Hours used with 'Public Holiday Ordinary' and 'Public Holiday'

Hours will be placed in

A 'Double Time Override' shift will never be automatically selected.

If enabled, you can manually set the shift in the pay run to 'Double Time Override' payroll shift type.

When the 'Double Time Override' payroll shift type is selected, the entire shift hours will be in 'Day Extra Overtime'.

Note: Night payable hours are never used.

A 'Call Back' shift will never be automatically selected.

If enabled, you can manually set the shift in the pay run to 'Call Back' payroll shift type.

When the 'Call Back' payroll shift type is selected, hours will go into 'Day Overtime' until the limit is set in "Limit of 'Overtime' hours", then the remaining hours will be placed in the 'Day Extra Overtime' hours.

A callback can occur when an employee is called back to work after having already gone home for the day.

Note: Night payable hours are never used.