The Employment code tab lets you keep your schedules in line with employment law. You decide whether the system only warns about breaches or also blocks the schedule from being published, and you turn particular rules on (the working day, the weekly rest, hour limits and others). That way you plan calmly and cut down the risk of mistakes.

Once logged in, click Company settings in the menu on the left (the cog icon at the bottom of the menu) and then Employment code.

Turning the checks on and choosing how they work

At the top of the tab there is a main Employment code verification toggle, which switches the whole check on or off.

1. Move the Employment code verification toggle to switch it on.
2. From the Verification method list pick how the system is to react to breaches:
3. • Messages only — the system reports breaches but blocks nothing.
   • Messages and blocking — the system reports breaches and blocks the publication of a schedule that breaks the rules.

The employment code rules

Once the checks are on you set the detailed rules. You tick each rule with its own checkbox, and for most of them you give a tolerance value (in hours).

1. Breach of the working day — the system flags it when the set number of hours does not pass between the start of one shift and the start of the next (24 hours by default).
2. Daily hours exceeded — a notification when a shift goes over the value set (8 hours by default).
3. Rest between working days — the system watches the minimum rest break between consecutive shifts (11 hours by default).
4. Weekly hours exceeded — a notification once the weekly limit is passed (40 hours by default).
5. Weekly rest — the system reports it when the rest drops below the value set (35 hours by default).
6. No free Sunday within four weeks — an alert when an employee has not had a single free Sunday in four consecutive weeks.

Below the rules you also set the Day boundary hour (Sundays/holidays) field (a dropdown with values from 4 to 8). It determines the hour at which the day starts and ends on Sundays and public holidays — that governs how the system assigns night shifts that straddle midnight to a Sunday or a holiday.

Above the list of rules there are two buttons that make configuration easier:

• Select all — turns every rule on at once.
• Restore defaults — brings back the default values and rule settings.

How the messages show up in the schedule

How breaches appear while a schedule is being created depends on the Verification method chosen.

With Messages only, an orange dot appears next to the employee the breach concerns. Clicking the dot opens a window listing the breaches — which day and which rule each one relates to.

With Messages and blocking, when you click Publish, the system shows the breaches and will not let the schedule be published until the errors are corrected.

Updated on: 09/08/2026