Overtime
The Overtime counter measures time worked beyond the full-time week (FTE), at the premium rate. It is the band above additional hours, and is never negative. (Danish payroll: overarbejde.)
When to use
- Pay out hours above a full-time week at a premium (typically ×1.5 or ×1.25, applied by the settlement step that credits it), or credit them to a time bank.
- Combined with Additional hours on the same FTE, so the two bands meet exactly: base rate up to the FTE, premium above it.
Parameters
| Setting | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Full-time week (FTE) | A full-time employee’s weekly hours, in hh:mm (e.g. 37:00). Overtime is the time worked beyond this. |
| Raise threshold to norm | When the employee’s norm exceeds the full-time week, raise the overtime threshold to their norm so contracted hours aren’t paid as overtime. On by default; turn off to start overtime at the full-time week regardless of norm. |
| Excluded from overtime | Activities whose hours never count toward the full-time week, so they can never become overtime — a course that must remain at the base rate however long it runs. |
How it works
For the week, the counter takes max(worked − threshold, 0), where the threshold is the FTE — or, when Raise threshold to norm is on and the norm is higher, the norm. It resets each week and is always zero or positive; the premium itself is applied by the settlement step that credits it (e.g. over * 1.5).
Public holidays and the full-time week
A paid public holiday counts toward the full-time week. It takes its hours off the norm — it is not time the employee owes — and it also lowers the full-time threshold by the same hours, because that time has already been paid against full time.
Without this, the same hours paid would be worth different amounts. On a 6-hour-a-day contract (a 30-hour week, full-time 37:00):
| Week | Worked | Additional hours | Overtime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon–Thu 32:00, Friday a public holiday | 32:00 | 7:00 | 1:00 |
| 10/9/7/6/6, no holiday | 38:00 | 7:00 | 1:00 |
Both weeks leave the employee 8 hours up, and both now split it the same way.
Activities excluded from overtime
Some worked hours should never reach the premium band. A course an employee is sent on is still normal paid work — it fills the norm and earns additional hours — but a long course week should not turn into overtime.
Naming an activity here lifts the full-time threshold by the hours worked on it, which is the same as measuring the threshold against non-exempt hours only. So the excluded hours can neither create overtime nor take away overtime the ordinary work earned on its own:
| Week (norm 34:00, FTE 37:00) | Ordinary | Course | Additional hours | Overtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without the exclusion | 30:00 | 15:00 | 3:00 | 8:00 |
| With the exclusion | 30:00 | 15:00 | 11:00 | 0:00 |
| With the exclusion | 40:00 | 5:00 | 8:00 | 3:00 |
The last row is the point: the 3:00 of overtime was earned by the 40 ordinary hours, and the course neither adds to it nor takes it away.
Hours the system fills in automatically from clock time, without a registration naming an activity, can never be excluded — only registered hours carry an activity.