Compliant & Fair Scheduling Rules
Create a mix of fixed and flexible rules that set the requirements and constraints for how your schedule is built. This allows you to manage fatigue, ensure fairness, and meet all contractual and union demands.
Create Rules That Protect Your Organization And People
Define hard rules that must never be broken and soft rules that allow flexibility—together, they protect your teams and help your organization run smoothly.
- Ensure union rules and contracts are met
- Protect your staff's health and wellbeing
- Increase operational efficiency
Rule Builder
Rules for each individual roster line.
Minimum hours between shifts should be [X] hour(s)
Ensure Fairness Through Automatic Shift Distribution
Create fairness rules that provide transparent, unbiased shift allocation including equitable weekends, nights, and on-call shifts.
- Reduce conflicts and perceived favoritism
- Increase staff retention and engagement
- Improve team satisfaction and reduce schedule disputes
Personalize Rules That Scale Easily
Create staff-specific and skill-based rules that apply to specific individuals or groups, accommodating unique requirements.
- Respect individual availability constraints
- Ensure teaching, studying and personal development time is respected
- Allow schedules to grow effortlessly with your team
Manage Fatigue Through Shift Patterns
Define specific shift sequences that must be avoided or encouraged to maintain work-life balance and comply with requirements.
- Build upcycling patterns for morning, evening and night shifts
- Improve circadian rhythm for better sleep, mood, and productivity
- Implement fatigue-reducing scheduling rules
Optimize Staffing Coverage
Ensure optimal coverage with rules that guarantee minimum and maximum staff per shift to prevent overstaffing and understaffing.
- Prevent unsafe staffing levels for every shift
- Ensure appropriate skill and seniority mix for an optimal workforce
- Automatically balance coverage needs with staff preferences
Rule Builder
Demands for each day of the roster.
Frequently Asked Questions
Scheduling rules are a mix of requirements and constraints that shape how your schedule is constructed. They include hard rules (must be followed) and soft rules (preferred but flexible), as well as staffing demands and preferences. This covers everything from union requirements and staffing levels to fairness distribution and standard work patterns.
Rules guide the AI schedule builder to create compliant, fair, and efficient coverage. Hard rules remove schedule options that violate essential requirements, while soft rules help the system identify and prioritize the best possible options. Demands and preferences are considered too.
Rules are categorized as hard (must be satisfied) or soft (preferred). For staffing demands, you can set priority levels (low, medium, high, critical). For preferences, you can set weights (normal, high, critical) to indicate how strongly the preference should influence the final schedule.
Stay Compliant, Reduce Fines, Ensure Fairness
Join organizations that have eliminated compliance violations and built fairer schedules with RosterLab's intelligent rules engine.