How to configure settings to penalize for shortage of work hours?

Setting up rules to penalise employees for not meeting the minimum work hours is crucial. This helps to motivate employees to complete their required hours of work, as there are consequences for falling short. When there are no consequences for not meeting the minimum work hours, employees may not feel as motivated to work efficiently or may take advantage of the flexibility of the tracking policy. Penalising for a shortage of work hours can help ensure that work is being done effectively and efficiently.

Let's see how you can configure the settings that govern penalisation for the shortage of work hours on Keka.

Go to the Time Attend (1) section, navigate to Attendance Tracking (2), open the penalisation Policy (3) tab, and select the relevant policy from the list. Go to the Versions (4) section and click the update icon (5) for the 'Current' tracking policy.

In the new window that opens up, you will be in the Basic Information section where you have to give an effective date from which this version of the tracking policy will take effect. Now, click Save. 

In Work Hours section, Toggle the switch if want to penalize (deduct leave) for shortage of work hours.

Now You can choose if the penalisation happens based on Gross hours or Effective hours. You can also select the Deduction Period (Day, Week, Month - The period for which the work hours are taken into account for calculation) and then define the leave deduction policy accordingly.

Now you can set the option "If average effective hours in a Day is less than X shift hours, deduct X  leave as per policy. You can also add multiple rules by clicking on +Add rule.

If you select the Deduction Period as week or month, by clicking on the option click here you will get an additional option to select a particular day of a week or a particular date in a month.

Finally click the Save button the save the changes. 

We hope this article helps you in configuring the settings for the penalisation of work-hour shortages in Keka. If you have any more queries, please refer to other articles on this page.