Shift trade

A shift trade is the common Canadian term for two team members exchanging their assigned shifts so both shifts remain covered.

The change still has to be recorded properly, and it still has to leave the right skills on the schedule. If the revised hours create overtime or reporting-pay issues, the policy has to fit the provincial employment standards that apply to that workplace.

Zelos does not run worker-to-worker trade approvals. The practical Zelos pattern is that one person releases a shift and another claims it, with the updated schedule visible to the team.

Also called: shift swapping (UK, Australia). Related: Roster, Overtime, Provincial employment standards.