"The FBA team assigned to our company has been incredible. They have proven themselves in every project assigned to them. We have used FBA to build our entire corporate ERP system over the last eight years from concept, through design, development, implementation, all the way to 24/7 maintenance and support. It has been a long and productive journey."

"FBA's time and attendance kiosks are robust – can run autonomously in the event of WAN failure and are easy to service – the only down time is when you unplug them."

"There are many scheduling and attendance solutions on the market – what makes FBA different is their ability to facilitate complex pay rules that many organizations need to address through collective agreements. The full automation of complex rules creates savings as misinterpretation or manual intervention inevitably increases labour costs."

FBA Sentinel Scheduling Module

Employees represent the single biggest cost of any security company.

The FBA Sentinel Scheduling module is a tool to help security companies schedule their employees more efficiently. The system is designed to layout all your shifts and easily assign the right people to the appropriate slots for any given period of time. The system accommodates all scheduled activities within the organization including statutory holidays, vacations, training and other activities the company must schedule. The schedule will handle any type of shift configuration, any time constraints and complex union or regulatory rules.

The following is a list of Features and Benefits for the FBA Sentinel Scheduling module and to see this module at work along with Time & Attendance and Payroll, see Case Study

Feature	Benefit
Scheduling can support a wide range of rules contained in collective agreements with unions.	Compliance with union rules Ability to support multiple unions simultaneously Reduced grievances
Enforcement of statutory labor restrictions.	Compliance with labor regulations
Schedule based on templates or “master bids”.	Easily copy the schedule from week to week Employees who are on vacation are excluded when copying a schedule to a new week Reduce amount of work for scheduler
Employees can bid on blocks of work based on seniority. These bids can be made at a Time & Attendance Kiosk or online.	Reduce grievances Streamline the process of filling the schedule while at the same time complying with union and company rules.
Schedule provisioning – provides scheduler with the required info to fill empty spots in the schedule with employees that have the proper credentials. Ensures employees are contacted based on seniority or other union rules and maintains call history with comments.	Reduced grievances – schedule provisioning based on seniority ensures candidates are called in the correct order. Streamlines process of filling gaps in schedule.
Vacation planning – i.e. prevent too many employees within group from taking holidays at the same time.	Ability to control workforce vacation strategy proactively. Better communication to employees
Provides scheduler with the ability to match required skills, licenses, certificates and clearances with employees (i.e. driver's license classification, firearms permit, security clearances)	Compliance with skill requirements
Automatic schedule adjustments for stat/civic holidays.	Reduces the number of manual scheduling adjustments due to holidays. Reduces errors in scheduling and work planning.
Multiple responsibilities can be assigned to a scheduled cell.	Allows assigning multiple pay grades for separate periods of the scheduled shift without having to create separate schedule events.
On call shifts – ability to punch in/out multiple times per shift so employee only gets paid for time worked during scheduled period. Can also be paid base salary for hours not worked, premium for hours worked, etc. Combine with IVR functionality to allow remote punch in/out for on call employees.	Automatically assign premium rate to actual worked hours (vs. base) for on-call employees.
Allows employee to specify hours of availability for overtime and no-call times (provisioning).	Reduces manual tracking of availablity. Reduces grievances due to calling employees during no-call times.
Full auditing of book-offs. System keeps track of reason why employee booked off the shift (i.e. sick, no-show, car trouble, etc)	Accurate absenteism reporting.

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