Payroll Shift Types (Traditional Award)

Payroll Shift Types allows you to add additional shift types such as:

When selected, 'Early Morning' shifts will be paid at the 'Day Overtime' rate from the time set in 'Early Morning shift start' to the time set in 'Day start'.

Note: The 'Early Morning shift end' field is disabled because it uses the 'Day start' time.

If the shift extends beyond this timeframe, it will follow the day shift timeframe and hour limits to allocate the relevant day rate.

When the 'Weekday shift' is inactive, pay runs will use either the day shift or night shift. This means that even if a shift starts in the Day timeframe and ends in the Night timeframe, it will still be considered a Day shift, with all hours allocated to Day Ordinary, Day Overtime, and Day Extra Overtime.

To use both Day and Night payable hours, enable the 'Use Weekday shift (Split Day/Night)' option. This will allow Traffio to calculate the payroll shift as a 'Weekday shift' instead of just 'Day shift' or 'Night shift'.

If a shift starts in the day and finishes at night, it will use Day Ordinary, Day Overtime, and Day Extra Overtime based on the hourly limits. Once the shift moves into the Night timeframe, the remaining hours will be assigned to Night hours, using the day hours already worked to calculate the night limits.

If a shift starts at night and finishes during the day, it will use Night Ordinary, Night Overtime, and Night Extra Overtime based on the hourly limits. Once the shift moves into the Day timeframe, the remaining hours will be allocated to Day hours, using the night hours already worked to calculate the day limits.

When inactive, shifts that start in the Day timeframe and finish in the Night timeframe will use all Day rates, then switch to the Night Overtime rate (and vice versa).

To use both Day and Night rates fully, toggle on the 'Simple Split Setting'.

'Weekday' payroll shift types will be replaced with 'Day' or 'Night' payroll shift types if the shift start time falls within specific hours.

A 'Double Time Override' shift will not be selected automatically.

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

When the 'Double Time Override' payroll shift type is selected, all shift hours will be paid at the 'Day Extra Overtime' rate.

Note: Night payable hours are not used

A 'Call Back' shift will not be selected automatically.

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

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

A call back occurs when an employee is called back to work after already finishing for the day.

Note: Night payable hours are not used

A 'Use 5 Night Shift' shift will not be selected automatically.

When enabled, shifts with the same EBA in a pay period, where five consecutive nights are worked, will be classified as '5 Night' shifts.

5 Night Shifts will bypass the 'Night Ordinary hrs limit' and use the '5 Night Ordinary Hours'.

The first hours within the '5 Night Ordinary hours limit' will count as 'Night Ordinary' hours, with the remaining hours as 'Night Extra Overtime'.

Shifts are included in the 5-night calculation if the payroll shift type is 'Night shift' or 'Weekday shift'.

Saturday, Sunday, and Public Holiday shifts count towards the 5 consecutive nights but keep their original payroll shift types.

When enabled, breaks will not be deducted from any shifts.

If not, breaks will be deducted from shifts.

A 'Don't Deduct Break from Night Shifts' shift will not be selected automatically.

When enabled, this will ensure that breaks are not deducted from a 'night shift'.

If the shift is considered a 'night' shift (usually from 6 pm to 6 am), no break deduction (e.g., 0.5 hours) will apply.

For example, on a day shift, working 6 hours would mean 5.5 hours of pay. On a night shift, you get the full 6 hours of pay.

If the settings allow a mix of night and day shifts, the break will be deducted only from the day part of the shift.

But, if the rule is set to "If you start a shift at night, it's always considered night," then no break will be deducted, as the entire shift is treated as night hours.