Glossary
Attendance Regularization
Also known as: Regularisation, attendance correction
Attendance regularization is the process by which an employee fixes an incorrect or missing attendance record, and a manager approves the correction. It covers situations like forgetting to mark in, a device failure, or working off-site. The corrected record then flows into leave and payroll calculations.
Even the best attendance systems produce occasional gaps, whether from a forgotten check-in, a network drop, or legitimate field work that was not captured. Regularization gives employees a controlled way to raise these corrections instead of silently losing a day or being marked absent.
The key is that regularization is a request, not a self-service edit. The employee submits the correction with a reason, and the manager reviews and approves or rejects it. This preserves the integrity of the record while still allowing genuine fixes.
Because regularization directly affects LOP, overtime, and comp off, a clear approval trail matters. Every correction should carry who requested it, when, why, and who approved it, so the record remains audit-ready and disputes can be resolved from evidence rather than memory.
How Workclave handles this
Workclave lets employees raise a regularization on a specific session with a reason, and routes it to the manager for one-tap approval. The original and corrected values are both retained, so the audit trail stays intact. approval-based time tracking.
Related terms
A manager approval workflow is the defined path by which attendance, leave, or time entries are reviewed and approved by the right manager before they become official. It turns self-reported data into an authoritative record. Approvals create accountability and an audit trail for payroll and billing.
Read definition →Loss of Pay (LOP) is a deduction from an employee's salary for days they were absent from work without any available paid leave to cover the absence. The day is treated as unpaid, and the per-day salary is subtracted from that month's earnings. LOP is calculated from attendance data at the end of each pay cycle.
Read definition →A timesheet is a record of how an employee's working time was distributed across tasks, projects, or clients over a period. It underpins billing, payroll, and productivity analysis in services businesses. Timesheets can be filled manually or generated from tracked work sessions.
Read definition →Session-based tracking records attendance as discrete work sessions, each with a start, an end, and a project, rather than a single daily clock-in and clock-out. A day can contain several sessions across different projects, breaks, or locations. This produces a far richer and more accurate picture of how time was actually spent.
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