Term
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Definition
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Time Reporter
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Any employee or contractor for who time is reported or
generated in PS Time & Labor
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Elapsed Time Reporter
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Report time in increment s of hours or partial hours
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Punch Time Reporter
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Report every aspect of time; precise instances of date and
time.
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Exception Time Reporter
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Report only differences to the usual schedule
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Positive Time Reporting
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Reporting all elements of time; must report hours worked
in order to get paid.
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Exception Time Reporting
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Report only differences to the assumed schedule.
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Exception
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User or system delivered, defined conditions applied to
scheduled, reported or payable time that require audit or review.
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Task Template
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Controls the task related fields that appear on the time
reporting panels and TCDs.
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Task Entity
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Individual components of a task; for example Project ID,
Activity ID
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Task Profile
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Select the default values for each task element on the
template; “fill in the blanks”
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Taskgroup
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Identifies the default time reporting templates, task
template, and task profile(s) for time reporters that share the same task
reporting requirements.
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TRC – Time Reporting Code
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Level at which a business actually needs to track employee
time to support all of its administrative and compensation needs. Can be
synched to NA Payroll Earnings Codes.
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TRC Program
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A group of TRCs
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Workgroup
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Groups of employees who share identical compensation
requirements; each employee in T&L must belong to a workgroup
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Shift
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Basic block of work schedules; elapsed, flex, punch
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Workday
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Daily work patterns built with shifts
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Schedule Template
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Sequential patterns of workdays on and off, along with the
number of scheduled work hours for each period.
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Schedule Definition
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Groupings of schedule templates
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Time Reporting Template
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Controls the fields that are available for time reporters
on punch or elapsed time entry pages; works with the task reporting template.
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Rapid Time Template
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Create a template for Rapid Time Entry page where you
specify which fields need to be populated by data entry clerks.
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Rule Elements
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User defined rule elements to represent any type of date
you want; 5 fields for free customization.
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TCD
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Time Collection Device; apparatus the records time
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TCD Group
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A collection of TCDs; allows for employees to report time
at various TCDs within the group; assign TCD supervisor to a TCD Group.
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Groups
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Sets of time reporters
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Dynamic Group
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Group of time reporters; Updated automatically when you
run a batch process or use the system refresh feature
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Static Group
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Group of time reporters; does not change unless you add or
remove members manually or change selection criteria.
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Earliest Change Date
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The date under report of the earliest addition or update
to time-related data for a time reporter since the last Time Admin run; the
earliest change date helps determine both the range of dates and the amount
of data that will be processed for each time reporter.
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Period of Interest
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The maximum date range; begin an end dates for determining
how much data to load into working tables and for which periods a rules
should be processed.
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Labor Distribution
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Process of allocating costs back to payable time
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Labor Dilution
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Process of allocating costs that are proportionate to the
number of hours worked.
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Prior Period
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Any period prior to the current one
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Prior Period Adjustment
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A change to previously reported time or task information
that requires the original report to be offset and the correct information to
be recorded.
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Time Period
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Allow you to enter, process, and report on time data for
specific segments of time; used in reporting time, rules processing,
attendance tracking; distinguish between the current and prior period.
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Daybreaker
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Define time range and time break within a workday that is
based on your company’s requirements.
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