Unpaid break deduction
Break policy is where a timesheet quietly loses an hour a week. A 30-minute deduction across five shifts is two and a half hours, and nobody notices until someone adds up a year of them.
Fill in every field to see the result.
How to use it
Step 1
Enter the total hours on the clock, before anything comes off.
Step 2
Enter the length of one unpaid break in minutes.
Step 3
Set how many of those breaks were taken. Two short breaks are not one long one for this arithmetic.
Step 4
Check the deduction in minutes against the paid hours. Seeing both is what stops a rounding argument.
Step 5
Check the break rules where you work before you deduct breaks by default. Minimum breaks, and whether an untaken break may come off, are set by local law.
Step 6
Deduct only the breaks that happened. If someone worked through lunch, set breaks taken to 0 and the whole shift counts as paid.
Questions people ask
Should short breaks be deducted?
Often not. Many jurisdictions treat brief pauses as paid working time and only allow a deduction for a proper meal break. Check the rule where you are before setting an automatic deduction.
How do I handle two breaks in one shift?
Enter the length of one break and set the count to two. The tool multiplies them and shows the total deduction, so a 20-minute policy taken twice reads as 40 minutes.
What if someone worked through the break?
Then the deduction should not be applied. An automatic break deduction is an assumption, and this is the one that generates wage claims.