Employee profile editing

This topic provides a full overview of the employee profile details. The basic fields and settings are discussed in the Manually create an employee article, so here you'll get familiar with the additional settings that become available after creating the employee profile. Nevertheless, in the case of basic fields, there are some aspects that are different when creating an employee profile and when editing it.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have View employee profile and Edit employee profile permissions under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to view and edit the profile after creation.

Role change

There is a dedicated role permission for changing the employee role, which is applied when editing the employee role and not when creating it.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have a Change employee role permission under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to change the role.

Company change

If you attempt to change the employee's company, you’ll see a date picker to schedule the transfer date.

Depending on the scheduling settings (weekly or biweekly scheduling) configured in the MobiClocks Admin Portal, your past date selection range will be either 1 (in case of weekly scheduling) or 2 (in case of biweekly) weeks. This means that, in case of weekly scheduling, the earliest date that you are able to select for transfer is one week before your current date. Same transfer date rules apply for Pay Group change, which are discussed shortly.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have an Employee company change permission under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to change the company after you’ve already set it.

Profile Info

This section discusses the rest of the settings under the Profile Info section of the employee profile, which are not discussed in Manually create an employee, as they appear only after the employee profile is created. The following screenshot shows the fields that are discussed.

The following fields are included:

• Email and Phone Number. Here you can specify employee's email and phone number, which are also used to activate the employee's user account.

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  You will need to specify the Email to be able to create a User Account for the employee. Meanwhile, user account activation can be done either via email or phone (sms verification).

• Address. Specify the employee's address.
• Job title and Department. The options for these fields are defined in Administration > Settings > Employee Setup. If no values are specified for these fields, they aren't shown in Profile info.
• Pay class. Here, you can specify a pay class for an employee, which can be different from the pay classes set for job sites. See Pay classes for more details.
• Default cost code. Specify a default cost code for the employee to be used for applying cost codes automatically.
• Skills. You can assign skills to the employee. The list of available skills is specified under Administration > Tag Management > Employee Skills.
• User defined fields. Here, all the custom fields added for your environment under Administration > Settings > User Defined Fields > Employee. are shown.

User Account

Creating a user account for an employee is optional, but it’s needed to let employees perform actions, such as punching in to a job sites, from their personal devices or other MobiClocks apps.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have a Change user account settings permission under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to create and configure user accounts.

The user account needs to be created manually after creating the employee profile. To do that, navigate to the User Account tab in the employee profile and select the Create account button, as shown in the following screenshot.

Next, you’ll need to choose the verification method. If the employee profile has both email and phone number specified, you’ll have both options to choose from. The following screenshot shows the verification dialog box.

After choosing the preferred option, select the Send button. The employee will receive an email or an sms with a link to set up a personal account through the MobiClocks Web App or by downloading the MobiClocks Personal App.

As soon as the employee sets up the account, you’ll be able to access the user account details and will also see a Created badge at the top of the User Account tab.

Note that you also have two actions next to the badge: Reset password and Disable. The first one lets you send password reset instructions to the employee’s email, while the second one lets you disable the user account, preventing the employee from accessing it.

Now that you’ve set up a user account for the new employee, you can proceed with configuring some additional parameters for the account.

First comes the Username, which employees will use for their accounts. By default, it borrows the employee’s email as its value, but you can customize it.

Next, you have the Role permission settings. New employees are automatically assigned the permissions that are defined for their roles in Web App > Administration > Role Permissions, but here you are able to view the complete list of employee permissions and override any of those for the given employee.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have an Employee permission override permission activated under Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to edit employee permissions.

GPS tracking

If GPS tracking is enabled, you’ll be able to track the employee’s location. The frequency with which the coordinates are stored and sent to the system is specified through Getting interval and Sending interval. If you don’t modify these two, the default values set in Administration > Settings > GPS are used.

Settings

Following the GPS tracking settings is the Settings section, where you have several additional options for managing what the employee can do through the personal app.

Here’s the list of the available settings:

• Allow personal app punches. Let employees punch into and out of the job site using their personal app.
• Cost code on punch out. The employee will be asked to cost code all the timelogs on punch out.
• Geofence lock. If the option is enabled, the employees will only be able to punch into a job site if they are within the job site's geofence lock. See Geofence zones for more information.
• Roaming employee. Employees are able to punch into any job site regardless of the job sites assigned to them.

Signed-in device

Lastly, the User Account tab has a Signed-in devices list where all the signins along with Device model, OS, Signin date, and other parameters are logged.

General

Meal Break

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VISIBILITY

Meal Break settings become available in the employee profile if Meal Break Policy is activated from Administration > Settings > Meal & Rest Break.

Additionally, Meal Break Policy settings don't appear if the employee's pay group is set to Salary.

The meal break settings in the employee profile are only applicable if the job site's meal break policy is set to Fixed. The following settings are available:

• Auto-apply. Automatically apply the selected break duration to the employee's timelogs. If this setting is deactivated, you can apply a fixed meal break to a timelog from the timelogs list.

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• Duration. The duration of the break. This overrides the value set in Fixed Meal Policy settings in job site settings.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have the Edit Meal/Rest Break Policy permission activated under Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to edit Meal Break Policy settings.

Rest Break

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VISIBILITY

Rest Break settings become available in the employee profile if Rest Break Policy is activated from Administration > Settings > Meal & Rest Break.

Additionally, Rest Break Policy settings don't appear if the employee's pay group is set to Salary.

The following settings are available:

• Auto-apply. Automatically apply the selected break duration to the employee's timelogs. If this setting is deactivated, you can apply a fixed rest break to a timelog from the timelogs list.

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  The auto-apply toggle needs to be on both in job site settings and employee profile for the feature to be applied.

• Duration. The duration of the break. This overrides the value set in Rest Break Policy settings in job site settings.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have the Edit Meal/Rest Break Policy permission activated under Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to edit Rest Break Policy settings.

Other

You have the following settings under Other:

• Policy group. Pay policy groups (include parameters such as work day duration, work week duration, and others) are set up in Administration > Pay Policy > Policy Groups, and here you can choose any of the available options or leave the default pay policy.
• Leave of absence. For each working day, an empty timelog is automatically generated and is then filled in by the employee. If this toggle is enabled, no timelog will be generated for the employee when on leave of absence.

Non eligible for rehire

If this setting is activated, you are not able to re-activate the employee profile if it has been disabled. See Manually create an employee for more information on employee profile status.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have an Enable/disable employee permission activated under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to disabe an employee profile.

Ignore job site hours policy

This setting allows an employee to punch at any job site regardless of the job site's working hours policy.

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If the Ignore job site hours policy is activated

• It prevents the Auto-adjust punches to work hours setting from being applied if it's enabled in the job site's working hours policy settings.
• The Lock hours option in the job site's working hours policy settings must be turned off so that employees are able to punch outside of working hours.

Other important behavior to note:

• When an employee is first assigned to a job site, the system automatically applies the employee profile's Ignore job site hours policy setting to that assignment. This setting can be modified later in the job site employees section.
• For existing job site assignments, changes to the Ignore job site hours policy setting in the employee profile will not affect the existing assignments. The setting in the job site employees section takes precedence.

Payroll items/Rates

Pay rates

In this section, you see the pay rates of the selected employee and can set new rates. On the highest level, pay rates are set up in company details where you can specify Company default rates as well as separate rates for each Job Title.

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PERMISSIONS

For each employee pay group, you must have the corresponding permission activated in Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to see their pay rates. The following are the permissions for each pay group:

• View hourly employee rate
• View salary actual employee rate
• View salary employee rate

So, if the employee profile has a Job Title that has pay rates set up for it in the employee’s company details, those pay rates are applied for the employee by default. Otherwise, company default rates are applied. The following screenshot shows an example where company default rates as well as job title-specific rates are applied.

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There can be cases when there is no Company default rate or Job Title rate set up. If neither of those is specified, you’ll need to set rates for each employee profile separately, which is discussed next.

Lastly, you can select the Set rates button and define rates specific to the employee.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have an Edit pay rates permission activated under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to set new rates for the employee.

In the dialog box that opens next, you can set rates for the following pay IDs:

• Regular
• Double-Time
• Overtime

See Pay ID for more details on pay IDs. The following screenshot shows the dialog box for setting employee pay rates.

Finally, as shown in the following screenshot, you have a Show History button to view the history of all the previously applied rates.

Payroll item mapping

Payroll item mapping templates are set up in Web App > Administration > Payroll > Payroll Mapping Groups, so here you just need to select a payroll mapping that needs to be applied to the employee.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have the Set payroll item permission activated under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to select a payroll mapping.

See Payroll items mapping groups for more information on payroll mapping.

Job Site History

In this section, you can assign a job site to the employee as well as view the complete history of the past job sites.

To assign a new job site, you need to select the Assign job site button in the upper right corner of the screen, select a job site from the dropdown list, and select Save.

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PERMISSIONS

Your role needs to have the Assign/unassign to job site(s) permission activated under Web App > Administration > Role Permissions > Employees to be able to assign job sites to employees.

The first job site you assign to the employee becomes the main job site. If you assign more sites to the employee, you can select another site to be the Main one from the three dots menu on the job site entry. In the same menu, you have the option of removing the job site, which will remain in the list, having its end date changed to the date of removal.

Face settings

Similar employees

Here, you have the list of all the other employee profiles that have been qualified by the system as similar to the given employee. The profile card of a similar employee includes a profile picture, status, name, and employee number. The following screenshot shows an example of a similar employee card.

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Locating similar employees can help you identify duplicate profiles (for instance, if the employee already had a profile but created a new one) and manage them.

Face library

This is a collection of all the photos that were taken for punch-in but were not recognized by the system.

For a photo to appear here, it first needs to be added to Face Library from the employee’s timelog that contains the unrecognized punch-in photo.

Once the photo is in Face Library, you can remove it or add it as a profile photo. This can be useful if, for instance, the appearance of the employee has changed, and the profile photo needs to be updated to reflect the current appearance.

Accepted Terms

In this section, you see the history of all the documents, such as an affidavit, accepted by the employee. The following screenshot shows an example of a list of accepted documents.