Restaurant Labor Compliance Software

Flexible scheduling

7shifts' provides restaurants with an intuitive, drag-and-drop schedule builder that makes it simple to schedule shifts that work for your restaurant—and stay compliant with local labor laws. 

Get ultimate visibility into each employees' time-off and availability preferences to build shifts and full schedules that work for everyone. Leverage sales and labor data from your POS integration, as well as regional weather forecasts to build more efficient schedules. Over-staffing, under-staffing, and missed labor targets are a thing of the past. 

Overtime alerts

Managers get automatic schedule alerts when building shifts to notify them of potential overtime. Additionally, managers will receive a notification when an on-duty employee is about to go into overtime—so they can approve the overtime or cut the employee. Overtime notifications are specific to each region—so you'll always be compliant with your local legislation.

With better visibility, your restaurant will never pay out overtime you didn't budget for or ecxpect—and you'll be more in control of your labor costs.

Electronic schedule publishing

When your managers are done building the schedule, they can easily publish privately or publicly—allowing managers to easily provide schedules with two weeks' notice. When new schedules are published publicly, a notification will be sent to employees via SMS text, push notification, or email. Employees can view their shifts directly on their mobile device and chat with managers directly in the app if they have any questions or concerns. 

Shift swapping

Shift swapping empowers your staff with more ownership of their schedules. With this feature, employees can offer up their shifts to coworkers in the "Shift Pool," or bid on other shifts to get more hours.

Shift bids are sent to managers to select the best employee to work the shift. When approved, the schedule is automatically updated to reflect the new changes.

Time-off and availability requests

Schedules are infinitely more flexible for your staff with time-off and availability requests submitted directly through the app. Managers receive notifications of all schedule requests through the app and can approve, deny, and manage requests on-the-go.

Scheduled break management

When planning for the weeks ahead, managers can build meal breaks, rest breaks, and even custom breaks into the schedule to stay labor compliant. Managers will receive notifications on the job when an employee is due to take their required breaks. 

Schedule change alerts

In regions that require two weeks' notice of schedules, managers are prompted to stay compliant with built-in schedule change alerts. When a manager makes any last-minute change to published schedules, they’ll receive an alert to remind them of the labor law, and the associated exception cost will be added to the labor exception report. 

Split shift detection

In Oregon and New York, there are strict labor laws around split shifts and clopens. To help restaurants stay compliant, managers will receive an alert when building split shifts into the schedule. Split shift punches are also automatically detected when an employee punches in with 7shifts, and the associated “split shift premium” is fed directly into the labor exception report. 

Built-in attestation

Strict regulations regarding meal and rest breaks can cause major headaches for managers—especially when employees simply forget to take their required breaks, or a waived break isn't recorded. When an employee clocks out using 7punches, they’ll be asked if they took their required meal and rest breaks or waived them, so managers can accurately track labor law compliance. 

The attestations questions and responses are completely customizable to your restaurant—so you can stay compliant your way.

Spread of hours and clopen alerts

Oregon and New York have strict regulations around spread of hours and clopens. 7shifts makes it easy to stay on top of these laws with built-in scheduling alerts that inform managers about any violations.

Managers are alerted when scheduling employees for a split shift that exceeds 10 hours, and advised about the $100 charge when scheduling staff for “clopens” with less than 11 hours rest between shifts.

Maintain compliance records

Labor laws require employers to keep records of schedules, punch data, and more for at least three years. 7shifts makes this easy by logging all of your restaurant's scheduled shifts, punch data, and account activity for as long as you need.

Generate labor exception reports

Every labor law violation is counted as an "exception" and automatically fed into a report for managers and owners. The labor exception report tracks the date, type, and fee associated with each exception, and provides the visibility needed to help your restaurant stay more compliant with local labor laws. 

Right to Rest Alerts

Managers will receive alerts of any Right to Rest exceptions in the schedule and be notified of the associated fee.

Language support

7shifts is currently available in English, Spanish, and French. Simply select your preferred language, and all text in the 7shifts web app will be displayed in this language.