Meal Break Penalty Settings

Dayforce allows per-meal waivers, where employees can waive their meal breaks on the timesheet. This also configures Dayforce to use the thresholds specified in the time entry policy instead of the thresholds configured in the California Meal Break Premium Clock Entry Time Based Rule.

Note: The rule is still required to pay out the meal penalty premiums.

This setting also controls whether employees can waive meals in Work > Time Clock. When this checkbox is selected, Dayforce prompts employees with meal waive options when they clock out to end their shift.

The minimum number of minutes for an employee’s meal length in time entry policies. Even if employees receive a meal, they’re entitled to a meal penalty premium if their meal doesn’t meet this minimum number of minutes.

Note: This setting is analogous to the Minimum Meal Length Minutes setting in the California Meal Break Premium Clock Entry Time Based Rule. If this time entry policy will be used with a pay policy that contains an instance of that rule, both settings should be configured with the same number.

Controls the number of meal waive options that are shown for every time entry on the timesheet. This functionality allows you to waive meals individually or all at once in a single action. Select one of the following options:

• Single: Timesheet features and Work > Time Clock show a single meal waive option for time entries. With this configuration, users have one waive action regardless of the number of meals assigned. This is the default selection.
• Both: Timesheet features and Work > Time Clock show two meal waive options for time entries so that users can waive individual meals.

When enabled, waive options are shown regardless of whether there are any penalties. As such, users can waive meals on a case-by-case basis. To prevent against unnecessary problems being flagged when the Always Show Waivers setting is enabled, problems aren’t generated when waivers aren’t selected. Further, when more than two penalties are payable for a time entry, then the second waiver option waives all meals subsequent to the first.

Employees waive their first meal break penalty, by default.

If both the employee and their supervisor waive a meal break, the employee isn’t paid the premium penalty for working through their meal break.

Supervisors waive their employee’s first meal break penalty, by default.

If both the employee and their supervisor waive a meal break, the employee isn’t paid the premium penalty for working through their meal break.

The number of minutes an employee must work to be eligible for a meal break.

Employees who work the specified amount (or longer), and don’t receive a meal break are paid a premium (or, a meal penalty) unless it was waived.

The maximum number of minutes employees can work and still waive their meal penalty.

Employees who work the duration specified in the Minutes That Must Be Worked For First Meal Penalty field can waive their meal, provided that they haven’t worked longer than the number of minutes specified in this field.

For example, with 300 entered in the Minutes That Must Be Worked For First Meal Penalty field and 360 entered in the First Meal Waiver Expires After Minutes field, employees could waive their meal after working 300 minutes (five hours), up until the point where they’d worked 360 minutes (six hours), at which point they can no longer waive the meal.

Note: All meal waiver validation happens in the main application, which means that clocks operating in standalone mode can’t perform this validation.

Employees waive their second meal break penalty, by default.

If both the employee and their supervisor waive a meal break, the employee isn’t paid the premium penalty for working through their meal break.

Supervisors waive their employee’s second meal break penalty, by default.

If both the employee and their supervisor waive a meal break, the employee isn’t paid the premium penalty for working through their meal break.

The number of minutes an employee must work to be eligible for a second meal break.

Employees who work the specified amount (or longer) and don’t receive a second meal break are paid a premium (or, a meal penalty) unless it was waived or if the employee was already paid a meal penalty for working through their first meal break.