Release notes 08/08/2024 Adding absence hour rates to wage profiles

Introducing customizable wage profiles for a flexible wage calculation

This update adds wage rates for absence hours to the wage profiles, which offers expanded customization options for tailoring your wage settings to better suit your unique requirements and preferences.

This update was driven by the growing demand for the ability to create a range of changing absence hour rates.

In this article, you will learn more about the absence hour rate update:

• Enhanced flexibility with absence hour rates added to the wage profiles
• Improved overview of absence hours and calculations
• What happens to my current wage and absence hour set up?
• Any questions?
• User Guides

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Enhanced flexibility with absence hour rates added to the wage profiles

A new category has been added to the wage profiles: Hourly absence rates, which enable you to add rates for your employees' absence hours. These can be set to switch between different rates after a certain time automatically.

If you add an absence hourly rate to a wage profile, this rate will apply to all absence hours that an employee has in a payroll period. If no hourly rate has been specified for an absence hour type, the rate you specify in the wage profile will always apply. This is regardless of which type of absence hour type has been used to register the absence. In other words, you can use three different types of absence hours in the calendar for one employee (Sick Hours, Course Hours, Time Off), but the rate will solely be defined through the wage profile.

This provides greater flexibility and control over your wage settings, allowing you to adjust them as needed.

This is what a wage profile can look like, which has been set to increase the wage rate of absence hours after a certain time. 

 

Continue to the article: Adding rates for absence hours to the wage profiles

Here, you can read more about how to add hourly absence rates to your wage profiles.

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Improved overview of absence hours and calculations

Another thing that has been updated is the basis for the wage calculation itself. The calculation of absence hours has now been added to show which absence hours are calculated according to which rate.

As shown in the next image, the absence hours are now calculated together if the wage profile determines their rate. If a rate has been specified for a type of absence hour, it will still appear as a separate equation in the wage calculation.

This picture illustrates the wage calculation for an employee, wherein two distinct types of absence hours rates are defined by the wage profile, while the other is determined by the specific absence hour type.

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What happens to my current wage and absence hour set up?

Your current wage and absence hour setup will remain unchanged. If you prefer not to utilize the new functions, no action is required on your part. Your existing rates for absence hours will still be connected to your existing absence hour types.

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Any questions?

If you have any questions regarding the update, please do not hesitate to reach out, and we will be more than happy to assist you. You can e-mail us at [e-mail] or call us at [phone]. 

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User Guides

All of our user guides have been updated to reflect the new update. We recommend you have a look at the following user guides to get a better understanding of the update:

Wage and supplement rates:

• Introduction to wage and supplement rates
• Adding rates for absence hours to the wage profiles

Absence types:

• Introduction to absence types and absence hour types
• Creating absence hour types
• Creating absence types
• Editing absence types
• Editing absence hour types