Copper area in the footpring and DRC errors

Hello,

in my factory a previous colleague has created many footprints like the one in the picture. There is a copper area in the footprint; this area encompasses two pins. In this way the area must not be redesigned every time the footprint is placed on different boards and the pins are automatically connected. The area works also as thermal pad.

The area gives two DRC error as you can see in the picture. I have found that these annoying errors disappear if i put a no_shape_connect property on both pins but I don't know if this is the correct procedure and this is the correct property.
I don't want to delete the area because i would like to use all the footprint libraries of my factory (many footprint are made in this way).
Can anyone help me?

Best regards.