Overtime
Overtime is time worked beyond the hours a person was normally scheduled for, measured against a threshold their employer has defined. Somebody scheduled for eight hours who works ten has recorded two hours of overtime. The threshold can be daily, weekly, or both at once.
Overtime is a measurement of hours before it is anything else. Work happened. It sat outside the normal window. That quantity is the overtime.
What follows from it is a separate question, and not a universal one. The threshold, the conditions and the consequence come from an employer's policy and from the rules of the place. Those differ enough that no page should state one as general.
The practical discipline is to record the hours accurately first. A dispute about the consequence is manageable. A dispute about whether the hours happened is not.
Authorisation is the other half. Most policies separate extra hours that were asked for from extra hours somebody simply worked. That difference is invisible in a punch record. If your policy makes it, capture the request at the time.
Where this shows up in PeopleMuster
PeopleMuster records working hours per person per day, and shows an average with the shortfall against expectation. Every long day is visible in the record, so an overtime rule has clean hours to work from.
Questions people ask
When does overtime start?
At whatever threshold your employer's policy and local rules set. Daily and weekly thresholds both exist and can apply together. This page states no figure, because there is no general one.
Does approved leave count towards an overtime threshold?
Sometimes it does and sometimes it does not. The answer comes from the employer's own policy. Check it before assuming either way.
Where do long days show up in PeopleMuster?
On the attendance table, where working hours sit beside check-in and check-out for each day, and in the working-hours histogram. Admins can also filter the records by a working-hours range.