The Compliance Assistant is a rules engine built into Nory. It applies the correct workforce rules to each location automatically based on their jurisdiction, so you do not have to research or configure them yourself. As you build a schedule, Nory checks it against these rules and flags issues before you publish.
For UK and Republic of Ireland locations, your compliance assistant covers rules such as:
Max weekly/daily hours.
Rest breaks during shifts.
Days of rest and minimum time between shifts.
Young workers work limits.
Minimum wage, including age bands.
How rules are applied to each location
When a location is set up, the Assistant applies the rules for its jurisdiction automatically. You can review which rules are active for any location and see why they apply, then adjust them to fit your business.
To do this, go to your brand level compliance settings
Compliance settings Location-level overrides
Rules start from the defaults for the jurisdiction. Where a single location needs something different, you can override a specific rule for that location without changing the defaults everywhere else.
You have the option to:
Turn a rule off if it doesn't apply to your business (e.g. a fair work week rule)
Switch the enforcement of the rule from blocking to warning (hard vs soft) and vice versa
Update the threshold for some of these rules (e.g. from 40 to 30 hours limit)
Hard rules, soft rules, and schedule implications
Soft rule: shows a warning, but you can still send, approve and publish (for example, someone scheduled over their weekly hours limit).
Hard rule: blocks approving the schedule until the issue is fixed, and may also block sending it for approval and publishing it (for example, less than 11 hours' rest between two shifts).
What happens when a hard rule is broken?
Approve schedule is always greyed out, and depending on how your business is set up, so are sending and publishing. Hover over it to see how many issues need fixing, for example "Resolve 1 hard violation".
Sending for approval: the issue appears under Needs fixing in the Send for approval drawer. Fix the shifts listed, then send.
Approving: if a hard issue appears after the schedule was sent (for example, a visa or right-to-work date passes), Approve schedule is greyed out with "Resolve 1 hard violation before approving." Send the schedule back so the manager can fix it.
Publishing: the issue appears in the Publish schedule drawer. Fix it, then publish.
Soft issues show under Worth a look and never block anything.