Posted-schedule/recurring-shift drives reminders, absence, penalties, and auto-clock-out (never the global 9-5 default); overtime never cut (auto-close only at a safety cap); team-lead draft->post workflow with employee notify. Frontend footprint kept at zero to avoid colliding with the concurrent fusion_plating employee-portal session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>