Facts About the National Institutes of Health Integrated Time and Attendance System

Business Objectives

• Implement timekeeping by exception
• Reduce payroll errors
• Eliminate need for users to understand complex timekeeping rules
• Reduce or eliminate the need for timekeepers
• Involve individual employees constructively in timekeeping process
• Configurable support for variety of approaches to timekeeping

• Fully implements exception based timekeeping
• Maintain employee profile information
• Supports optional employee sign-in/out for work days, weekends, and holidays
• Online access to current up-to-date leave balances
• Automates leave request and approval
• Supports leave donation
• Supports use of over 40 work and leave categories in quarter hour increments
• Automated leave accruals for full-time and part-time employees
• Generates biweekly time and attendance data for payroll system
• Ensures daily compliance with the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA)
• Enforces user level security
• Supports corrections to prior timecards as well as current timecards
• Supports both Windows and Macintosh computer users

• Client-server version is written in Omnis 7 and C++
• Web version is written in HTML, Javascript, and Java, using web server from Microsoft and

application server from Bluestone Sapphire/Web.
• Both versions link to Microsoft SQL-Server 6.5 database using ODBC or JDBC calls.