Identity and jurisdiction

Identity and jurisdiction#

For: Admin You’ll need: Permission to change work policies, and a work policy open — see How to manage work policies.

The first three fields on a work policy — ‘Name’, ‘Country’, and ‘State/Province’ — pin the policy 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 policy is used.

What it does#

  • ‘Name’ is the label you’ll see in dropdowns when you assign the policy to a location or employment type. Make it explicit: “Switzerland — default”, “Germany — retail (Bayern)”, “Austria — gastronomy”.

  • ‘Country’ sets the legal frame the policy sits in and drives which statutory holidays are seeded.

  • ‘State/Province’ narrows the country down to a canton, Bundesland, or Land where holidays and rules vary regionally. The read-only detail page shortens the same field’s label to ‘State’.

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 policy’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.

One thing the policy’s ‘Country’ field does not control: the Swiss night-work block. That section is shown whenever your company’s country is Switzerland — so a Swiss company sees it on a policy whose Country is Germany too. See Swiss night-work compensation (ArG 17b).

How it shows in the app#

  • The work policies list shows the ‘Country’ and ‘State/Province’ columns next to the name, so you can tell two same-named policies apart. Both are on by default, along with ‘Is default’.

  • The detail page shows the country and state as upper-cased plain-text codes.

Verify it worked#

Open Company → Policies & rules → Work policies. The policy is listed with the country and state codes you set, and seeding holidays for a location on that policy offers that country’s statutory days.