Assigning overtime hours

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Dennis

I was hoping to get a bit fo help:

I have been trying to set up a project file that has two
12 hour shifts with 4 of those 12 hours calulated at an
overtime rate for each shift. I can't seem to figure out
how to make this calculation automatic. I would like to
assign resources to the task as a 'Day Shift' and a 'Night
Shift' because the rates of pay between the two are
slightly different.

Is there any way that I could set up project to accomodate
this type of situation? Ideally, I would like to avoid
assigning overtime hours to individual tasks and simply
work around the clock based on regular and overtime rates
for each of the two groups.

Put another way, can I assign work around the clock and
expect project to be able to calculate costs based on a
regular and overtime rate given that the regualr rate
would apply to the first 8 hours of the shift and overtime
would apply to the remaining 4 hours of the shift?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Dennis
 
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Steve House

Not really automatically but you can do it manually - here's the problem.
Project considers all the hours performed during work time as defined by the
resource's calendar as regular hours, regardless of how many a day they are.
It has no way of knowing what the laws are in your jurisdiction or what the
union agreements might require and they vary wildly. So does overtime kick
in at 6 or 8 or 10 hours? Who knows? Only you, the manager! Overtime,
conceptually, is unusual work, work that is performed outside of regularly
scheduled work, in other words, work that is exception work done *outside*
of the resource's normal calendar. So to get what you want - you create a
base calendar for your resource that shows an 8 hour work day, NOT 12. You
estimate the duration of the task you're going to put him on AS IF he was
going to do it all in regular 8-5 straight time hours and assign him to it.
Let's say would be expected to take one week, 5 days or 40 regular hours, IF
he did it all in regular straight-time work hours. Now you split the sceen
and display the resource work in the bottom window. 40 hours total work is
required and will show in the work column of that screen. If he does 12
hour days, that 40 hours works out to be (8+4)+(8+4)+(8+4)+4 hours. So we
have a total of 12 hours of overtime. Enter that in the OT column of the
work form. Our duration will drop from 40 hours to 28 hours or 3.5 days
because ONLY straight time counts towards duration, but the total work still
remains at 40 hours. Our costs will be 28 hours at straight time plus 12
hours at overtime for a total of 40 hours of work performed.
 
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