A distribution business runs several completely different working patterns at once: drivers work by route and fall under driving-time rules, the warehouse runs rotating shifts, and field agents and office staff keep standard hours. Records have to be kept separately per category but reported as one. Overtime, night work and field premiums accumulate quickly, and mistakes usually surface only in the payroll run.
Build the roster per team — drivers, pickers, stock controllers, field agents — and see uncovered shifts immediately. The alert goes out 48 hours ahead, not on the morning someone fails to show up. Configured for working-time rules in France and for reporting to l’inspection du travail.
Every warehouse, hub or delivery point keeps its own attendance record, while reporting consolidates in one place. No more collecting files from each site to find out how many hours were worked last month. Configured for working-time rules in France and for reporting to l’inspection du travail.
Hours beyond schedule, night work, weekends and public holidays are calculated automatically under the applicable labour rules and feed straight into payroll, with no manual recalculation at month end. Configured for working-time rules in France and for reporting to l’inspection du travail.
For drivers, couriers or warehouse operators, CV screening runs on fixed criteria — licence category, warehouse experience, location — and returns a shortlist in hours rather than days. Configured for working-time rules in France and for reporting to l’inspection du travail.
Any contract change — a shift move, a field premium, a transfer between sites — updates the employee register automatically, with filing deadlines respected. Configured for working-time rules in France and for reporting to l’inspection du travail.
Each site records its own clock-ins and clock-outs, while reporting consolidates into a single view. That lets you compare hours worked and labour cost between locations without requesting files from every supervisor, and it means an inspection finds the complete record in one place.
Night work carries either a pay premium or a reduction in working time, depending on the applicable national rules and collective agreement. The important part operationally is that the premium is derived from recorded time rather than from the planned roster, so a shift that actually ran long is paid as it ran.
Changes to the core terms of an employment contract — role, working time, pay, place of work — must be reflected in the statutory employee register within the applicable deadline. Generating that filing from the contract change itself removes the gap between what happened on the ground and what was reported.
4softhr shortens the cycle from advert to first shift: candidates are screened on fixed criteria — licence category, warehouse experience, location — and hiring documents are signed electronically before the first day. Onboarding runs from a checklist so equipment and access are ready and the new starter goes straight onto the roster.
