Identity and jurisdiction#
For: Admin
The first three fields on a work rule — ‚Name‘, ‚Country‘, and ‚State‘ — pin the rule to a place. Get them right and the rest of the form makes sense; get them wrong and the wrong statutory holidays, defaults, and labels show up everywhere the rule is used.
What it does#
‚Name‘ is the label you’ll see in dropdowns when you assign the rule to a location or employment type. Make it explicit: „Switzerland — default“, „Germany — retail (Bayern)“, „Austria — gastronomy“.
‚Country‘ sets the legal frame the rule sits in. It drives which fields are visible (the Swiss night-work block only appears for Switzerland, for example) and which statutory holidays are seeded.
‚State‘ narrows the country down to a canton, Bundesland, or Land where holidays and rules vary regionally.
When it kicks in#
The country and state are read whenever Shiftavo needs to know „what’s the law here?“ — most importantly when seeding statutory holidays. The holiday seeder uses the rule’s country and state to pull the right Arbeitsgesetz (ArG, Swiss labor law) regional holidays, the right German Feiertage by Bundesland, and so on. See Auto-seed holidays from country.
The country also determines whether premium and night-work fields apply. A rule with ‚Country‘ set to Germany hides the Swiss night-work compensation block entirely.
How it shows in the app#
The work rules list shows the ‚Country‘ and ‚State‘ columns next to the name, so you can tell two same-named rules apart.
The detail page header shows the country flag and state code.
When you assign a rule to a location whose country doesn’t match, Shiftavo warns you in the location form — that’s almost always a mistake.