Attendance Management Configuration



In Dayforce, attendance management is the process of tracking your employees’ attendance. With attendance management, you can customize the actions Dayforce takes when it detects employees with attendance incidents, such as a late start or a no-show.

This section is for system administrators and describes how to configure attendance management for your organization’s needs in Pay Setup > Attendance. It describes how to create attendance policies, which track incidents such as employees arriving to work late or missing scheduled shifts, how the occurrence of these incidents cause attendance violations, and what actions should be taken for these violations.

Before you set up attendance management, you might need to set up the following prerequisite functionality:

• Pay codes: Pay codes represent what an employee was doing for a particular segment of time. Attendance management requires pay codes configured for each attendance incident that your organization tracks. For example, if you want to track when employees are late (up to 15 minutes after their scheduled start time), very late (over 15 minutes late), or a no-show, you need at least three additional pay codes: Late, V-Late, and NoShow.
• See Pay Codes.
• Time entry policies with the tardy rules enabled: Time entry policies determine how employees can clock in and out for work. Attendance management requires a policy that’s configured with tardy rules. These rules dictate when Dayforce assigns different pay codes when employees clock in late or early. Continuing the example above, you’d create a time entry policy with tardy rules that mark up to 15 minutes late with the Late pay code and over 15 minutes late with the V-Late pay code.
• See Time Entry Policies.

To set up attendance management, you must configure incident types, violations, grades, and grade tracks.

Descriptions of attendance management configuration tools

Configuration tool	Description
Incident and incident type	See the following topics: For conceptual information about incidents and incident types, see Incidents. For information about configuring incidents and incident types, see Configure Incident Types. For information about adding and configuring incident types in attendance policies, see Assign Incident Types to Attendance Policies. For information about adding and configuring incident types in attendance rule policies, see Base Incident Type Rule. Note: For information about the differences between attendance policies and attendance rule policies, see below this table.
Violation	See the following topics: For conceptual information about violations, see Violations. For information about configuring violations, see Configure Violations. For information about adding and configuring violations in attendance policies, see Assign Violations and Define Consequences. For information about adding and configuring violations in attendance rule policies, see Base Violation Rule.
Grade	See the following topics: For conceptual information about grades, see Grades. For information about configuring grades, see Configure Grades. For information about adding and configuring grades in attendance policies, see Assign Grades to Attendance Policies. For information about adding and configuring grades in attendance rule policies, see Base Grade Rule.
Grade track	See the following topics: For conceptual information about grade tracks, see Grade Tracks. For information about configuring grade tracks, see Configure Grade Tracks.

After you configure incident types, violations, grades, and grade tracks, you must configure a policy that takes these configuration tools and enforces them through a tracking framework that you can customize. This involves setting up either an attendance policy, an attendance rule policy, or both. These policy types are similar but with a few differences, and which policy type you choose to configure depends on your attendance tracking requirements:

• Choose Your Attendance Policy Approach
  • Configure Attendance Policies
  • Configure Attendance Rule Policies
• Assign Attendance Policies to Employees

After you configure a policy, there are some attendance background jobs that you might need to run or schedule. Additionally, you can set up some client properties that support attendance management functionality in Dayforce. Lastly, there are some best practices that you should follow to make sure that Dayforce attendance management features work properly:

• Attendance Management Background Jobs
• Configure Attendance Management Client Properties
• Attendance Management Best Practices

After you configure attendance functionality in Pay Setup > Attendance, you can track your employee’s attendance in the Attendance Management feature. See Attendance Management in the Manager Guide.