Klacks schedules front of house, kitchen, and housekeeping under the UK Working Time Regulations — with the 48-hour average limit over 17 weeks (26 weeks in tourism peaks), the 11-hour rest period, and compensatory rest after shift changes.
Lunch and dinner service with a break in between: split shifts are the norm — and they raise rest-period and scheduling questions that are nearly impossible to coordinate cleanly by hand.
The Working Time Regulations cap weekly working time at an average of 48 hours over 17 weeks — 26 weeks in tourism peak periods. Keeping track across seasonal peaks is barely doable without a system.
Seasonal peaks, temporary staff, and changing availability: the staffing mix shifts weekly, yet the schedule still has to be right.
Klacks is installed on your own infrastructure — via Docker; allow about half an hour for the first start.
Public holidays and rest periods come preconfigured for your country, surcharges where defined for your country — and you can adjust them anytime.
Klacks builds shift plans, flags conflicts and optimizes routes — with an AI assistant if you want.
From the early shift to the night shift — it all works together.
Klacks automatically averages weekly hours over the chosen reference period — 17 or 26 weeks — and warns before the 48-hour limit tips over.
The 11-hour rest period is monitored in real time; for shift-change exceptions Klacks keeps track of whether the required compensatory rest is made up — blocking in automatic planning if desired.
Klacks automatically credits night, Sunday and public-holiday premiums as time credit — configurable per country and rule set, with no manual rework in payroll preparation.
Shifts are only filled by staff with the right qualification — Klacks warns about expiring certifications before they become a problem.
“Schedule the weekend, two servers are out sick” is enough — Klacksy starts the replanning.
If someone drops out, Klacks immediately shows who's qualified, available, and within rest-period and maximum-working-time limits.
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Bank holidays are anything but uniform across the United Kingdom: England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each observe their own set of statutory holidays, and individual councils add local holidays on top — such as Glasgow Fair Monday, the third Monday in July. Klacks handles exactly what simple tools get wrong.
Klacks offers countless ways to calculate rules and hour credits for nights, weekends, public holidays and overtime — exactly the way your contracts and company agreements require.
Klacks flags time collisions, rest periods that are too short, too many consecutive working days and work on holidays right as you plan — as an error or warning in the error list.
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Try it in the Playground and see how Klacks handles shift schedules, premiums, and rest periods — or install it directly on your own infrastructure. No license fees, no registration required.
Klacks is open source under the AGPL-3.0. Host it yourself, keep your data with you, pay no license fees — you stay in full control.