Auto-accrual of night-work credit#
For: Admin
Shiftavo accrues time-compensation credit for you whenever a worker’s time is confirmed on a shift that’s eligible for Swiss ArG 17b (Arbeitsgesetz, Swiss labor law) night-work compensation. You don’t have to post the rows by hand — they appear in the ledger as soon as the time entry is confirmed.
What it does#
When a time entry is confirmed on the Timesheet, the system asks two questions:
Is the shift’s work rule a Swiss rule with ‘Enable ArG 17b time compensation’ turned on? See Swiss night-work compensation (ArG 17b).
Did any of the worked time fall inside the rule’s night band?
If both answers are yes, the system multiplies the night-band minutes by the rule’s compensation rate (10% by default) and posts a positive row to the person’s time-comp ledger, tagged with the source shift and the source ‘Night-work accrual’.
The accrual is reversed automatically when the confirmation is undone on the timesheet (i.e. clock data is cleared). Undo-confirmation posts an offsetting ‘Manual adjustment’ row of equal magnitude pointing at the same source shift. The original positive row is never edited — that keeps the ledger immutable and the audit trail intact.
Note
Unapproving a time entry does not by itself reverse the accrual — the underlying clock data is still there. To reverse, undo the confirmation (clear attendance) first; unapprove on its own only clears the approval timestamp.
When it kicks in#
On confirm. As soon as the row leaves ‘Published’ for ‘Confirmed’ on the timesheet, the accrual posts. Only the worked portion of the shift counts — not the scheduled portion.
On undo-confirmation. The matching reversal row posts immediately.
Re-confirm. Confirming the row again posts a fresh accrual; the old reversal stays in the audit trail.
The auto-accrual is independent of the night pay premium (Premiums). Both can apply to the same hour — they’re different forms of compensation under the law.
How it shows in the app#
The ledger row’s source column says ‘Night-work accrual’ and links to the originating shift. See How to view a time-compensation row.
The Payroll report breaks out night-compensation hours separately from regular and overtime hours.
A reversed accrual shows as two rows in the ledger — the original positive entry and the offsetting negative entry — both linked to the same shift.