Counter plugins

A counter is the calculation type used by a Weekly Registrations allowance policy. Instead of matching check-in/out 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 credits to a time bank — 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.

How time off counts

A counter compares the week’s worked time against the norm, so what counts as worked decides the outcome.

Paid time off — vacation, sick leave, personal days — fills the norm. A week with a vacation day is neither short nor long: the day is neutral, and no counter posts anything for it.

Time off in lieu is the exception. Those hours are paid for out of the time bank they are drawn from, so counting them as worked as well would pay for them twice. A day taken in lieu is instead removed from the week’s worked time and from the norm the week is measured against, so it drops out of the comparison entirely.

The difference is visible as soon as an employee makes the hours up elsewhere. Take a part-timer on a 30-hour norm with a 37-hour full-time week, who takes one 7.5-hour day in lieu and works 30 hours across the rest of the week:

Counted as worked, the week reads 37.5 hours — over the full-time week, so half an hour is paid at the overtime premium, for hours nobody worked.
Discharging the norm instead, the week reads 30 hours worked against a 22.5-hour remaining norm: the same 7.5-hour surplus, all of it at base rate.

This depends on the activity’s category being set to Time off in lieu, not on its name. A time off in lieu (afspadsering) activity left on the default category Other is treated as ordinary paid time off and still counts as worked time.

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

Daily overtime

Time beyond each day’s own norm, in bands paid at different rates

Norm deficit

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

Worked hours

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

A typical Danish setup

A common arrangement for a part-timer uses all three, credited 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.