Hourly Time Cards
Reliant employees working fewer than 20 hours per week must report their hours worked to Reliant. This is done each month based on the process below and the deadlines established each year. These can be found on your time card as well as listed below.
Reliant employees who work Full-Time, PT-30, PT-25, or PT-20 (see Field Staff Statuses) are not responsible for reporting back to the Reliant office how their time is spent accomplishing job responsibilities. However, your local church or ministry may require some form of regular feedback for how you are using your hours and accomplishing your roles. Reliant employees are responsible for following any local church or ministry guidelines for accountability in roles or hours.
Time Card Deadlines for 2024
Time Card Deadlines for 2024 | ||
End of time period | Submission Deadline | Pay Date |
1/31/2024 | 2/1/2024 | 2/15/2024 |
2/28/2024 | 3/1/2024 | 3/15/2024 |
3/31/2024 | 4/1/2024 | 4/15/2024 |
4/30/2024 | 5/1/2024 | 5/15/2024 |
5/31/2024 | 6/1/2024 | 6/14/2024 |
6/30/2024 | 7/1/2024 | 7/15/2024 |
7/31/2024 | 8/1/2024 | 8/15/2024 |
8/31/2024 | 9/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 |
9/30/2024 | 10/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 |
10/31/2024 | 11/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 |
11/30/2024 | 12/1/2024 | 12/13/2024 |
12/31/2024 | 1/2/2025 | 1/15/2025 |
Submitting an Hourly Time Card
Instructions for the first time you are opening the Hourly Time Card file
- Log into your Reliant Google Account on this browser. You can do this at mail.reliant.org or drive.reliant.org.
- Open the file titled: Last name, First Name (Your Name) (Current Year) Time Card shared with you by timecards@reliant.org.
- To make the file easier to find, you can bookmark the sheet to your browser or add it to your Google Drive by selecting "File" from the top menu bar then " Add to My Drive."
- Proceed to the instructions below
Instructions for submitting your time card for approval every month
- Enter your hours for the weeks covered by the month's time card tab.
- In the Missionary Approval blank, type your full name.
- Right-click the Missionary Approval cell and select "insert comment," then type: "+timecards@reliant.org I am submitting this time card" and select the blue Comment button to submit your comment. Click the comment box again, and in the Reply box, type "+firstname.lastname@reliant.org (substituting your supervisor's email). Please approve this time card" and click the blue Reply button to submit your reply.
- Your supervisor will then need to follow the instructions within the form (see Supervisor Approval) to type their name in the Supervisor Approval Box and to add a comment stating, "I approve this time card for (missionary name)."
No Time Card Submitted
If a missionary does not submit their time card within the deadlines, that time card will be locked and those hours must be reported on an exception time card. Reliant hourly employees are responsible for reporting their hours to Reliant within the Time Card Deadlines listed above. If an employee fails to submit three time cards within a year, Reliant will work with local leadership to discuss a corrective action plan. In extreme cases, Reliant may exit an hourly employee to Associate staff if non-compliance with the time card submission process and deadlines has been a recurring problem without acceptable corrective action taken on the part of the employee. In cases in which the local supervisor cannot resolve the situation effectively, additional regional leadership may be made aware of the situation to assist Reliant with a resolution.
Exception Time Card Process
For more information and links to the Exception time cards, see Exception Time Cards.
Order of Pay Restrictions
Reliant hourly employees must have submitted a time card by the deadline to be eligible to receive payments for expenses after salary in the Order of Pay the next month. This rule applies to both employees in the scenario of a dually employed couple. No back pay or cabinet expenses will be paid if a time card was not submitted or if a time card was submitted late.
For example, if the time card with November hours was due by November 24, but the time card was locked, a November Exception Request was submitted November 28, it is considered late, and the hours contained on the exception time card will not be paid until January. In this scenario, the employed missionary (and spouse if both spouses are employed) will not be eligible to receive back pay in December (this same rule applies to the payment of reimbursements).
8 Comments
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)
Unknown User (emmanuel.joseph@reliant.org) Mike Swann user-1a794 Emmanuel pointed out that since this is a Google Sheet that can be constantly edited, a missionary could have their supervisor approve a certain number of hours and then go change those hours. So instead of having the supervisor say "Approved," they will now copy and paste a statement that is automatically formulated that says "I approve this time card for XX hours, including XX hour of overtime." That way if a missionary were to go back and edit hours, we could quickly tell by seeing that the hours don't match the supervisor's approval comment.
I think this is an easy fix and isn't any extra work for the supervisor.
You can check out what I did here: https://docs.google.com/a/gcmweb.org/spreadsheets/d/1aeL3N-gBIom6bwl2Ilk___ngkhmX6tq6Wk38NmUJ6Qo/edit?usp=sharing
Kathy Zellinger
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org), is there a way to have the deadline chart show up closer to the top of this page? I had to click a couple of links to find the deadlines.
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)
I pulled them out of the instructions. Now the link at the top should take people there. It's hard to get them much higher because of all the info above it.
Barb Seckler
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org) I am leaving the info on MTD timecards but this may need to be updated and maybe moved to an MTD section with Toolbox instructions. I am going to update the payroll timecard instructions based on changes we're making for 2018
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)
We're still using the MTD Time Card on Staffnet with anyone who is not Fixed Term.
Barb Seckler
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org) - i am going to link the exception timecard to this page soon. But would you have time to look at what I put here and see if it makes sense. We simplified the submission process a little (hopefully.)
and I added details of how the exception/late submissions will work and the "teeth" behind it
Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)
Looks good.
Barb Seckler
user-1a794 - I added details to this page refering to the process we discussed for getting the supervisor involved when corrective action is needed etc (after 3 late time card submissions - this would be when we cue your team to reach out to the supervisor with action steps needed) to this time card page.