Add an employment type

Add an employment type#

For: Admin You’ll need: Nothing.

You’ll create an employment type with contracted hours, leave-policy links, and the default working hours that seed availability for people on this contract.

Open the form#

  1. In the sidebar, go to Company → Employment types.

  2. Click ‘Create’ in the top-right. (On an empty list the button reads ‘Create employment type’.)

Fill in the basics#

  1. Enter a ‘Name’ (e.g. “Full-time 40h”).

  2. Enter a short ‘Code’ (e.g. “FT40”).

  3. (Optional) Add a ‘Description’.

Set compensation and contract#

Under ‘Compensation & Contract’:

  1. Set the ‘Contracted hours’ and choose the ‘Contracted hours basis’ — ‘Annual’, ‘Monthly’, ‘Weekly’, or ‘Daily’.

  2. Set the ‘Contracted days per week’.

  3. (Optional) Choose a ‘Work policy’ and a ‘Default hourly rate’.

Set the default working hours#

  1. Under the ‘Default Working Hours’ legend, tick the checkbox for each working day (Mon–Sun).

  2. Enter the ‘Start’ and ‘End’ times for each ticked day.

  3. Click ‘Save’.

Tip

The default working hours are the source for ‘Create working time from employment type’ on a person’s page — see How to create availability from a person’s employment type. Set them once here so you don’t have to re-enter them per person. A new form pre-fills the start and end times from your company defaults.

A worked example#

A “Part-time 20h” type: ‘Name’ ‘Part-time 20h’, ‘Code’ ‘PT20’, ‘Contracted hours’ 20 with basis ‘Weekly’, ‘Contracted days per week’ 4, ‘Default hourly rate’ CHF 18.00. Under ‘Default Working Hours’, tick Monday through Thursday and set ‘Start’ 09:00 / ‘End’ 14:00 on each — 4 × 5 h = 20 h, matching the contract. Adding a person on this type with the working-hours default enabled seeds those four Mon–Thu 09:00 – 14:00 blocks into their availability. Changing the hours here later affects only people added afterwards.

Verify it worked#

The new employment type appears at Company → Employment types.