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Assigning an auto-lunch deduction will activate an automatic deduction of desired minutes to an employee after a specified amount of consecutive hours worked.

Note: When applying an Auto-Lunch Minutes deduction, it is important to also specify an amount of consecutive hours worked in order to trigger the deduction.  This will prevent unnecessary lunch deductions.

Additional Help: To prevent a double deduction for employees who are awarded an auto-lunch deduction, and clock out occasionally for an extended lunch, set the required amount of hours higher.  Example:  An employee awarded 30 minutes after 4 hours may clock out after 4 hours and 5 minutes and will be deducted 30 minutes, plus the time out.  They may return for another 4 hours and yet another deduction is made.  Solution: 30 minutes after 6 hours.  As a result, if an employee clocks out around lunch after 4 or 5 hours worked, the 6 hour requirement will restart and the automatic deduction will not be made.  It will deduct if and only if the employee does not clock out before the 6 hour requirement.
 
Step 1

To activate an automatic-lunch minutes deduction, you must open an individual's employee setup file; therefore, first select Employee Setup from your Main Menu (see illustration).
 

Step 2 Select an employee from the provided list or click the corresponding individual check-boxes to work with multiple employees. Utilize the button tool Work with selected employees  found below the employee list (see illustration).
 

Step 3 Selecting the employee will offer the needed individual's employee setup file where you will notice the Auto-Lunch Minutes and Auto-Lunch after how many hours? entry boxes (see illustration).  Note, once again,  the amount of CONSECUTIVE hours worked should be specified; meaning, if an employee clocks out for any reason, the hours will be reset before the deduction is made, which may demand a manual lunch deduction entry (see the Editing a Time Card link for further details).
 
Step 4 Save the entries and the Auto-Lunch Minutes will be activated.