The attendance features available in the Practitioner role allow you to view attendance information for employees who belong to security groups to which you have access and to perform attendance-related management tasks as necessary.

In the Time & Attendance module, attendance records are created when employees' work hours deviate from their normal or expected work hours. The three main types of attendance events that practitioners have access to are: attendance exceptions, attendance infractions, and attendance corrective actions.

• Attendance Exceptions

  Some companies elect to track certain types of attendance deviations, such as sick days, late arrivals, unscheduled absences, or early departures. If your company has enabled attendance tracking, the tracked events are automatically recorded as attendance exceptions in the Time & Attendance module. As a practitioner, you can view attendance exception information for employees who belong to security groups to which you have access. You can also choose to excuse attendance exceptions. If you excuse an exception, it remains in the employee's history, but any points associated with it are not assessed. Practitioners can also manually create and delete attendance exceptions for past pay periods.

• Attendance Infractions and Corrective Actions

  If your company tracks attendance exceptions, it may also assign point values to each exception and define infraction levels based on accumulated exception points. Each infraction level may require a corrective action (such as a verbal or written warning). If your company uses attendance tracking and has implemented an attendance infraction policy, a Corrective Action Required exception appears on the appropriate manager's Home page when an employee reaches an infraction level that requires a corrective action. As a practitioner, you can always view the infraction level, attendance exception history, and corrective action history for any employee who belongs to a security group to which you have access. You can also view, edit, delete, or rescind existing corrective actions or record new corrective actions.

Note: Attendance notifications cannot be viewed from the Practitioner role. Attendance notifications are used by employees to report that they will be late or absent from work on the current or next day. If you have manager user rights, you can view current attendance notifications and employee attendance notification histories from the Manager role.

You can perform the following attendance-related tasks from the Practitioner role:

• View and edit employees' attendance exceptions

• Create an attendance exception

• Excuse employees' attendance exceptions

• Delete an attendance exception

• View edit audit information for attendance exceptions

• View employees' attendance infraction levels

• View and edit attendance corrective actions

• Record a corrective action

• Rescind or delete a corrective action

• View edit audit information for corrective actions

Notes:
You can only view attendance information and perform attendance management tasks related to employees who belong to security groups to which you have access.

For more information about attendance from the employee perspective, see Attendance Overview.