Due to HR/legal requirements we have our hourly employees clock out during their 30 minute unpaid lunch break. Because of this, we have no Lunch Break set up on our shifts.
However, we also have a 15 minute paid rest break. From what I have found so far, the Shift Breaks feature works just like the lunch break, in that it deducts from both Labor Hours on any active Labor Detail and Pay Hours on the Labor Header.
Does anyone know of a way to have the breaks only deduct from the Labor Detail hours, and not affect Pay Hours? We don’t want to force the employees to end and restart an activity for a paid break, if we can help it.
I found a very old post about this but didn’t find any answers.
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The way we handle it is we have them clock into an indirect for break. It helps us keep track of when and how long people are utilizing their breaks, not utilizing them, or overbreaking. We have a problem with all 3 scenarios.
We have a break button in MES that just clocked them into indirect without the pop-up and all that.
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Under that scenario they still end their production activity in order to clock into the indirect, right? And clock back in to the production activity after break?
OK, we’re just trying to avoid the need for using MES at all for a paid break.
We just went live today at a shop that is over 150 years old, coming off of paper time tickets. All the starting and ending of activities in MES is a shock to the system for several of the folks 
Trying to make some compromises for them.
The other thing you could do that would keep them in production but get them in and out of a break activity with a deduction from the production hours is to use the Downtime feature. I warn you though that, using that feature can complicate labor reporting outside of the canned Production Detail report. It basically opens and closes an indirect record that overlaps your production record and the downtime gets reduced out later in reporting.
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