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 | ||
| 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 |

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.
For more information and links to the Exception time cards, see Exception Time Cards.
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).