Pacific Timesheet computes missed meals according to California labor and wage laws. To determine whether a day's work warrants a missed meal penalty the hours are divided into 5 hours blocks. Any block of work greater than 5 hours gets a missed meal penalty. Take the following example:

You would be forgiven to expect a missed meal penalty for the second punch, as it is greater than 5 hours. But you won't actually receive one! When applying California rules you compute the first 5 hour block to start at 9:00AM and end at 2:45PM, adjusting for the 45 minute break taken. As there was a meal break taken there is no penalty for this first 5 hour block. The next 5 hour block is computed to start at 2:45PM and would end at 7:45PM. Since the employee punched out at 6:45PM they only had 4.00 hours in the second block and therefore no missed meal penalty! They would have had to work beyond 7:45PM to get a missed meal penalty.

As you can see, you can get unexpected behavior from something as seemingly simple as a missed meal penalty when using California wage and labor rules.

A new version of Pacific Timesheet is now available, version 6.69. This version has several features you should know about:

• Bill Rates, Pay Rates Now Can Be Imported/Exported
  If your bill or pay rates depend primarily on the employee, you can now import/export them from the menu above the employee list on the Employees tab. Both the default rates as well as the exception rates are imported/exported.
• New Timesheet and Leave Request Status Filters
  When listing timesheets and leave requests on the Timesheets, Approvals or Leave Requests tabs, you can now choose from two new status filters: "Approved (All Levels)" and "Approved (Any Level)". This applies only if you have multiple approval levels enabled (System > General page). Previously there was just the "Approved" status filter, which behaved the same as the new "Approved (All Levels)" status filter.
• Unapproving Leave Requests Now Removes Leave From Timesheet 
  This applies to employee policies that are set to automatically put approved leave request hours onto the timesheet (see the System > Policies > Schedule Rules page). In previous versions, if you approved a leave request it would then place the hours onto the employee's timesheet. If you subsequently unapproved, rejected or deleted the request the hours would remain on the timesheet. This version will automatically remove the leave hours from the timesheet if they were placed there by the request approval process.

You can see all of the changes here:

www.pacifictimesheet.com/timesheet_support/pacific_timesheet_release_notes.htm

If you are using the online service, it will be updated to this version within a few weeks. If you are self-hosting Pacific Timesheet, you should receive an email with download instructions, or you can contact support@pacifictimesheet.com.