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Last Updated: 2025-03-14
Steps: Set Up End of Shift Time Attestations

Steps: Set Up End of Shift Time Attestations

You can configure time attestation questionnaires that workers must complete at the end of their shifts to determine compliance with meal, break, or other policies. You base the questionnaire on a meal break rule set or on a time attestation condition rule. You can only configure this feature for workers who use the check-in and check-out time entry method on desktop or mobile devices. Validations for meals and breaks run only when workers check out for meals and breaks.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Time Attestation Prompts and Responses
     task.
    Configure questions and answers that you can use in time attestation questionnaires. Complete the
    Time Attestation Prompts
     tab:
    Option
    Description
    Require Comments
    Select the check box to require workers to enter a comment along with their response to this prompt.
    Description
    Describe the prompt. Workday only displays the Description field to administrators.
    As you complete the
    Time Attestation Responses
     tab, consider:
    Option
    Description
    Require Comments
    Select the check box to require workers to enter a comment when they select this response.
    Is Waiver
    Select the check box to mark the response as a waiver.
    Description
    Describe the response. Workday only displays the Description field to administrators.
  3. (Optional) Access the
    Create Time Attestation Condition Rule
     task.
    Create condition rules that workers must meet to generate attestation requests. The time attestation condition rules use Workday-delivered, worker-level conditions in the
    Source External Field or Condition Rule
     prompt.
  4. Access the
    Create Time Attestation Rule
     task.
    Select
    End of Shift Attestation
    . Complete the task:
    Option
    Description
    Time Attestation Condition Rule
    Select a time attestation condition rule when you don't want to base attestations on meal and break rule sets. Use condition rules to capture attestation responses to ensure that legal and contractual requirements are being met. Example: You want to confirm that workers weren't injured during their shifts.
    Prompt Order
    Configure the order in which Workday displays attestation prompts to workers.
    Violations
    Select the violations of the meal break rule set that generate the attestation request.
    When you select a time attestation condition rule rather than meal break rule sets, you don't need to select violations.
    You can select
    Always Show
     to configure an attestation that always displays, even when there are no violations.
    Prompt
    Select a prompt that Workday displays to the worker when:
    • Their shift meets the conditions for the rules that you configured.
    • Their shift includes one or more of the violations that you configured.
    Additional Prompt
    Additional Response
    You can configure an additional level of prompts and responses based on workers' responses.
  5. Access the
    Edit Time Entry Template
     task.
    On the
    Noneffective-Dated
     tab, expand the
    Attestations
     section.
    1. (Optional) Select a
      Meal Break Rule Set
       to apply to the time entry template.
      Use a meal break rule set to base attestations on meals and breaks. You don't need to select a meal beak rule set when you configure a condition rule on the time attestation rule.
    2. In the
      End of Shift Attestations
       grid, add a row for each attestation rule you want to apply to workers with this time entry template.
You can create penalty time blocks for workers who waive or don't take their required meals or breaks. Create custom fields using these report fields on the Time Shift business object and use these custom fields in time block create calculations:
  • Has Break Violations (Attestations)
  • Has Conditional Violations (Attestations)
  • Has Meal Violations (Attestations)
  • Has Meal or Break Violations (Attestations)