Contracted hours say how much someone works. The working week says on which days. Begin uses it to value absences and public holidays, to decide which days are rest days, and to know when a long day turns into overtime. Set one default for the workspace, then give a person their own week only where their contract differs.
Choose the week
The six-day week always splits a full-time week into 7 hours Monday to Friday and 5 hours on Saturday. A part-time contract scales both days by its workload.
Set the workspace default
Go to Settings → Workspace settings and choose Default working week in the Working week group. It saves when you choose. This needs Manage workspace settings. A workspace that has never chosen one works on Summarized working time (Mon-Sun). That is how Begin calculated before this setting existed, so nobody’s figures change until you choose a different week.Give one person a different week
1
Open the person's Job & pay tab
Choose Record pay change, or edit the record whose week was wrong.
2
Choose the working week
Pick their week next to Contracted hours. Same as the workspace follows the default,
including any later change to it.
3
Set the effective date and save
A new week is a change of terms, so record it from the date it starts. Working time change
is the reason to use.
On a five-day week, an assigned shift pattern sets which weekdays the person works. Someone on a
Monday to Thursday pattern has no hours on Friday, so a Friday holiday does not reduce their norm.
Begin reads the pattern on the first day of each month, so a pattern assigned mid-month counts
from the next month.
Next
Recording pay changes
Contracted hours, workload and effective dates.
Workspace details
The rest of Workspace settings.
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