Overtime after end of work

The Overtime after end of work counter measures a day’s overtime on the clock, counted from the employee’s own end of work: the moment the day’s checked-in work reaches the norm. Use it when an agreement pays overtime by clock hours after the working day ends, for example the first 3 hours after it at 50 % and every hour after that at 100 %.

When to use

• The rate depends on how long after the end of the working day the work was done, counted from when this employee’s day ended. A fixed clock window, such as 17:00–06:00, is the Time interval filter instead, and a rate by hours above the norm is Daily overtime.
• Employees come back for a second session later in the day, such as a call-out. The time between the sessions counts on the clock, so an evening session can fall straight into the higher rate.

Like Daily overtime, this counter replaces the weekly Overtime and Additional hours counters. Don’t give an employee it together with any of them, or the same hours are paid twice.

Parameters

How it works

The end of work

The counter goes through the day’s check-ins in clock order and adds up the work until it reaches the day’s norm. That moment is the end of work. The unpaid lunch break and check-ins with a reason that is excluded from work time don’t count, just as they don’t count as worked time.

No planned hours are needed: an employee who starts late reaches the norm later, so their end of work moves with them.

Time off for part of the day counts toward the norm. With a 7:30 norm and 4 hours of vacation in the morning, the end of work comes once 3:30 have been worked on the clock.

Bands on the clock

Each overtime minute is placed at its distance on the clock from the end of work, and the band takes the minutes that fall inside it. The time between two check-ins counts on the clock: with the end of work at 16:00, a session from 19:00 is already more than 3 hours after it, however little was worked in between.

Only time above the norm is overtime

A short first session reaches the norm later, in the next session, so it gives less overtime and the first band starts later. With a 7:30 norm, a 30-minute unpaid lunch, and one band of 0:00–3:00 at 50 % and one from 3:00 at 100 %:

Hours registered beyond the clock

When an employee registers more hours than they were checked in, the extra hours are overtime too. They have no time on the clock, so they fill the first band first, then the next. When fewer hours are registered than the check-ins cover, the latest minutes on the clock are the ones left out.

The bands of a day therefore always add up to the day’s worked time minus its norm. With Deduct from flex balance turned on, the flex balance stays where it was.

Days without a norm

On a weekend, a public holiday or a day off in the employee’s work pattern, the whole day is overtime. There is no end of work, so the bands count from the first check-in: with the bands above, 4 hours on a Saturday give 3:00 at 50 % and 1:00 at 100 %. Turn on Days without a norm count in the top band to pay it all at 100 % instead.

A day with a reduced norm, such as a half day before a holiday, simply reaches the norm earlier. A vacation day with work on it is still a day with a norm.

Several rates: one policy per band

One counter is one band. For several rates, create one Weekly Registrations allowance policy per band, each with its own allowance activity, and give the employee all of them:

Employees on flex terms usually should not earn this overtime: leave their employment terms out of the policies’ Availability .

Putting the cost on the right project

This is the only counter that can carry the project and dimension values of the work onto its allowance rows, from the registrations that have a time. See Cost placement.

What employees see

When an employee has this overtime, the Your day timeline in the day view marks the moment the norm is reached and shows each band as a coloured bar over the check-ins, so the employee can see which part of the evening is paid at which rate.

Troubleshooting