Auto-accrual of night-work credit#
For: Admin
Shiftavo accrues time-compensation credit for you whenever a worker submits time 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 submitted.
What it does#
When a time entry is submitted 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 time entry is unsubmitted on the timesheet (i.e. clock data is cleared). Unsubmit 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, unsubmit (clear attendance) first; unapprove on its own only clears the approval timestamp.
When it kicks in#
On submit. As soon as the row leaves ‘Published’ for ‘Submitted’ on the timesheet, the accrual posts. Only the worked portion of the shift counts — not the scheduled portion.
On unsubmit. The matching reversal row posts immediately.
Re-submit. Submitting 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.