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A full-time week of 40 hours, Monday to Friday, shown as an active policy A full-time week of 40 hours, Monday to Friday, shown as an active policy A working time policy sets the full-time week: its weekly hours, and how many fall on each day. Begin counts each person’s monthly norm from those days, less public holidays. A person contracted for fewer hours than the week gets a smaller norm in proportion: 30 hours on a 40-hour week is 75%. A new workspace, including one brought over from Classic, starts with Full-time week: 40 hours, Monday to Friday, for everyone. If the team works another week, such as Latvia’s six-day week, change the policy.

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Set the week

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Open the policy

Go to Policies → Working time. Open Full-time week to change it, or open Add and choose Working time policy for a group whose week differs.
2

Set the weekly hours and the working days

On the Week tab, enter Weekly hours and tick the working days. Begin splits the hours evenly between the ticked days. Change any day’s hours after that, and Weekly hours follows what the days add up to.
3

Set the audience

Use Applies to to choose everyone or selected people, positions or departments. When several match, the most specific one decides the person’s week.
4

Choose when it starts and save

A change counts from its Effective from date. A month that spans the change counts the days before it on the old week.
For a 38-hour week with a 6-hour Friday, keep 40 hours over Monday to Friday, then set Friday to 6. The form warns about a day over 8 hours, and in a Latvian workspace about a six-day weekday over 7, but still saves it.

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How absences count

A full-day absence takes off the hours the person was rostered that day. On a day inside the absence with no shift, it takes off nothing. If the absence covers no shift at all, each day takes off its hours in this week, so a day with no hours takes off nothing. An absence on a weekend or a public holiday never reduces the norm.
Roster all of an absence or none of it. A week of leave that covers one rostered shift takes off only that shift’s hours: its other days have no shift, so they take off nothing.

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Hour columns

Read the norm beside worked and absence hours.

Overtime

Choose when hours above the norm become overtime.

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