SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_OHT0610 (Determine Minimum Breaks Based on Hours Worked)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_HRRXX (Software Component) Sub component SAP_HRRXX of SAP_HR
   ⤷ PT (Application Component) Personnel Time Management
     ⤷ PTIC (Package) HR Time Data: Customizing
IMG Activity
ID SIMG_OHT0610 Determine Minimum Breaks Based on Hours Worked  
Transaction Code S_AHR_61009954   IMG Activity: SIMG_OHT0610 
Created on 19981221    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_OHT0610   Determine Minimum Breaks Based on Hours Worked 
Customizing Activity SIMG_OHT0610   Determine Minimum Breaks Based on Hours Worked 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_OHT0610    

Some working time regulations stipulate that minimum break times must be observed, depending on the working hours actually performed. Subschema TF20 enables you to check that the minimum break duration is observed, to report violations of the break duration, and to effect an additional break deduction.

Example

Working time of between 6 and 9 hours requires a minimum break of 30 minutes, and working time in excess of 9 hours requires a minimum break of 45 minutes.

The term "working time" is used to mean the hours actually worked rather than the target hours in the daily work schedule.

This means that specifying fixed break schedules in the daily work schedule does not always guarantee that the minimum break duration is observed; see Evaluate break data. Furthermore, you might want to use the daily work schedule to facilitate individual interruptions of working time which are then considered break time, rather than specifying fixed breaks.

Standard settings

Subschema TF20 is not included in the standard schema. If subschema TF20 is included in the time evaluation schema, the regulation described in the above example is put into practice.

Activities

Such break regulations require an exact definition of the times involved. You must, therefore, perform an exact analysis of the break regulation that you require.

  1. Clarify the following:

  • How is working time calculated that is used together with limits to determine minimum break duration? (Are only actual times included? Is the period included between first starting and finally finishing work?)
  • How are times determined that can be counted as breaks already taken? (Unrecorded times, recorded absences, break times stored in the daily work schedule and already accounted using PBRKS?)
  • If the minimum break regulation is not observed, do you want the administrator to be informed? Do you require an additional break deduction?
  • How is the additional break deduction determined?

Please analyse the following situations:

  • At work: 10 am - 4:12 pm => 6.20 hours.
    Additional break deduction 0.50 or 0.20 hours?
    Make a comparison with an employee who was at work from 10 am to 4 pm and did not receive a break deduction.
  • At work: 8 am - 5:12 pm => 9.20 hours.
    Additional break deduction 0.75 or 0.20 + 0.50 = 0.70 hours?
    Make a comparison with an employee who was at work from 8 am to 5 pm.
  • At work: 10 am - 12 noon => 2.00 hours.
    At work: 12 noon - 12:15 pm => 0.25 hours.
    At work: 12:15 pm - 4:03 pm => 3.80 hours.
    Is an additional break deduction required? If so, how big should the deduction be? Examples of practical values are 0.50 - 0.25 = 0.25 hours or 0.20 hours.

In the standard version of TF20, the latter values are deducted.

  1. Include subschema TF20 in your time evaluation schema. It must be accessed after function PBRKS (or after function TIMTP if you do not use function PBRKS). The subschema is accessed by function COPY TF20.

Further notes

  • The system documentation on subschema TF20 and its personnel calculation rules describes practical options for adapting this procedure.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG SIMG_OHT0610 0 HLA0003735 Time Evaluation with Clock Times 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
PSCC L - Logical transport object PE00 TM00 39 Modify Schema: Subschema TF20 (Minimum Break Duration) 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19981221 
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