Start Shift Day Off Rule

This rule ensures that shifts after a planned day off can’t start before the start time of the employee’s last shift. For example, if an employee works from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday and takes Tuesday off, you can use this rule to ensure that their Wednesday shift doesn’t start before 9:00 AM.

Start Shift Day Off Rule settings

Setting	Description
Included TAFW Pay Codes Excluded TAFW Pay Codes	The time away from work pay codes that the rule includes or excludes when determining if employees have a scheduled day off.
Exclude Sundays	The rule doesn’t consider Sundays scheduled days off.
Exclude Holidays	The rule doesn’t consider Holidays scheduled days off.
Severity	The response to a violation: Critical: You can’t save or post the schedule. Error: You can save the schedule, but you can’t post it. Informational: You’re alerted to the problem, but no action is required. Warning: You’re alerted to the problem, but you can still save the schedule.

Example

An organization has a schedule rule policy with the Start Shift Day Off Rule configured as follows:

• Day Off is selected in the Included TAFW Pay Codes drop-down list.
• Sick is selected in the Excluded TAFW Pay Codes drop-down list.
• Error is selected in the Severity drop-down list.

You schedule an employee to work a shift on Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. On Wednesday, they have a scheduled day off. With this configuration, if you schedule the employee to work a shift starting at 8:00 AM on Thursday, Dayforce shows an error message in the Problems panel.

However, if the employee works from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Friday, and takes a sick day on Saturday, there’s no restriction on the start time of the employee’s Sunday shift, because the rule excludes sick days.