Compensation
- Discover Compensation
- Migration from Overtime balance to Compensation: everything you need to know
- What are overtime policies and how do I create them?
- What is the difference between a time off, pay, and hybrid policy?
- How does the version history of a policy work?
- How do I assign employees to an overtime policy?
- What is the default overtime policy and how does it work?
- How do I manage the policies I've created?
- What are multiplier rules and how do I create them?
- How do I assign employees to a multiplier rule?
- What are categorization rules and how do I create them?
- What happens if I edit the paid clock in/out type associated with a categorization rule?
- How do I assign employees to a categorization rule?
- How do I manage the rules I've created?
- What is the "Prioritize" function and how does it work?
- What is the difference between multiplier rules and categorization rules?
- What are time margins and how do I create them?
- How do I assign employees to a time margin?
- How do I manage the time margins I've created?
- How do I compensate an employee's overtime balance?
- Does accumulated overtime (positive/negative) expire?
- Can I set a maximum limit on positive or negative overtime?
- Where can I view the movement history of an employee's balance?
- What are compensatory absence types?
- Can I customize the columns I see on the main Compensation screen?
- Where can I see the balance generated by each type of rule?
- How does overtime validation work?
- Who can validate or reject overtime requests?
- How do overtime policies, multiplier rules, categorization rules, time margins, and compensatory absence types relate to each other?
- If an employee has both multiplier and categorization rules, how are they combined in the calculation?
- Do time margins affect the calculation of multiplier and categorization rules, or are they independent?
- What is the difference between "validating" overtime and "adjusting" a balance? Can any manager do it?
How do overtime policies, multiplier rules, categorization rules, time margins, and compensatory absence types relate to each other?
Think of the Compensation system as layers applied in order over the time worked by an employee:
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Time margins decide when time starts to count as overtime (through clock in/clock out tolerance and the minimum hours required for it to start adding up).
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Multiplier rules define the value of each hour according to the conditions in which it was worked (night slots, public holidays, time slots); categorization rules classify that time into categories of their own (travel, night hours, etc.) so they can be viewed separately.
- The overtime policy establishes how that balance will be managed: whether it is compensated with time off, pay, or both, how often the validation period closes, when it expires, and what limits exist.
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Compensatory absence types define the specific time-off types (e.g., Regular overtime balance, Public holidays worked) to which time is sent when it is compensated with time off.
In summary: margins and rules generate and nuance the time; the policy decides what to do with the balance; and compensatory absence types define what type of time off the overtime materializes into.