Eligibility warnings on the rota

What each warning means, and why Paddl warns you rather than stopping you.

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Paddl already knows who is trained, whose certificates are current, and who is compliant. When you put someone on a shift, it checks that against the shift and tells you what it finds.

What gets checked

Warning

What it means

Certificate expired or expiring

A certificate the role requires has lapsed, or lapses before the shift

Training expired or expiring

A required training module has run out

Not compliant

The person's overall compliance status is not clear

Working time

Their average over a rolling 17 weeks is heading past 48 hours (UK and Ireland only)

No break scheduled

A shift over six hours with no unpaid break on it (UK and Ireland only)

Overlapping shift

They are already on at another site at the same time

On approved leave

They have leave approved covering that day

When they appear

Three times: as you assign somebody, summarised again when you publish the week, and once more if a colleague claims their shift in a swap.

Why nothing is blocked

Because a rota is built at five o'clock on a Friday by somebody who already knows their chef's Level 2 lapses on Tuesday and has a plan. A hard stop at that moment does not make the kitchen safer, it makes people work around Paddl.

What Paddl does instead is remember. The warnings you were shown are saved onto the shift, so six months later the record says what was known at the time. That is a stronger position than a system that silently let it through, and a more useful one than a system that was overridden and did not say why.

Outside the UK and Ireland

The working time and break warnings come from UK and Irish law. If your business country is set to something else, those two are skipped rather than applied wrongly. Everything else still runs.

To make a warning go away, fix the thing. Renew the certificate under Team > Team Members, or assign the training. The warning clears on its own once the underlying record is current.

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