Counter plugins

A counter is the calculation type used by a Weekly Registrations allowance policy. Instead of matching clock intervals like the filters and calculators do, a counter looks at the whole week’s worked time against the contractual norm and posts a single figure to the policy’s target activity.

That figure is what a settlement policy then banks — typically with a Credit (expression) step that combines several counters at different rates (for example additional hours at base rate and overtime at ×1.5).

The full-time week (FTE)

Two of the counters split worked time into bands using the full-time week (FTE) — the weekly hours of a full-time employee (for example 37:00):

time above the norm, up to the FTE is additional hours, paid at base rate;
time beyond the FTE is overtime, paid at a premium.

A part-timer on a 30-hour norm with a 37-hour FTE therefore earns additional hours between 30 and 37 hours, and overtime only above 37 hours.

Additional hours and Overtime should use the same full-time week value so their bands meet exactly, with no gap or overlap.

Available counters

Additional hours

Time above the norm, up to the full-time week, at base rate

Overtime

Time beyond the full-time week, at a premium

Norm deficit

The week’s running shortfall (afspadsering), repaid by later long weeks

Worked hours

Every worked minute of the day, absence excluded — for hourly paid employees

A typical Danish setup

A common arrangement for a part-timer uses all three, banked by one settlement policy:

Additional hours with Skip the negative remainder turned on — the surplus between norm and FTE.
Overtime — the premium band above the FTE.
Norm deficit — carries the shortfall of a short week, so it is repaid by a later long week rather than paid out.