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What is Wage & Hour Compliance in Opus?

This article explains features you can use to ensure employees are training while at work.

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Written by Ben Brunken
Updated over a week ago

Wage & Hour Overview

We encourage businesses to have policies that require employees to train while they're at work. In order to ensure that your team understands your policies and that you have a written record of their agreement and compliance with them, we partnered with Fox Rothschild LLC to implement a redundant checks and balances system:

  1. Training policy certification at the start of training

  2. Clock-in confirmation to ensure your team confirms they are clocked in before they train

  3. Reporting on training session time, down to the second, in the event you need to verify training times

Clock-in Confirmation

The Wage and Hour setting allows you to mandate which actions in the app require clock-in confirmation. There are three actions to choose from:

  • Modules—when a trainee taps to begin a module

  • Resources—when a trainee taps to view a resource

  • Messages—when a trainee taps to view a message

Clicking the toggle for any of the above will trigger a pop-up in the app requiring the trainee to click "Yes" or "No" in response to the question, "Are you clocked in right now", before proceeding with that action.

  • If a trainee taps "yes," they will be allowed to proceed with the action and will not be asked to confirm clock-in for another 4 hours.

  • If a trainee replies "no," they will receive another pop-up message reminding them that they must be clocked in in order to proceed. If they attempt the action again, they will again be asked to confirm that they are clocked in.

Training Session Reporting

There is an easy way to retrieve training session reports for your organization. You can export them manually using the Custom Report Builder.

FAQ: Geofencing limitation

Opus platform does not enforce wage & hour compliance using geofencing. It's understandable to want to proactively prohibit usage. However, we've identified several limitations to geofencing:

  • It isn't always accurate. Geofencing is only as good as the number of employees who allow GPS tracking (location services) or use a VPN on their personal device or tablet.

  • Asking for location permissions from your employees can breach trust and make employees uncomfortable.

  • It doesn't actually mean that your team is clocked in.

Given these limitations, we've determined that our wage & hour feature provides the best training experience while also enforcing policy.

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