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Cross-cutting HR settings: calculation basis, salary costs, rating, absence and overtime counters, and collective agreement.

2 min readUpdated on June 30, 2026

Go to Settings ⚙️ → HR → Settings to set the cross-cutting options of the HR module. Click Save after making changes.

General

  • Default calculation basis: the basis used for reports, exports and performance sheets (for example clocked hours or planned hours). This setting is global, but you can define a different basis per employee in their profile.
  • Enable rating of your employees: enables the rating system from 1 to 5 (ranking). These ratings are not public: only administrators, HR managers and schedule managers see and edit them.
  • Employee calculation basis: chooses the basis for displaying salary costs in the schedules, productivity and reports, in gross or in employer cost.
  • Use the rate from the contract or from the profile: indicates whether the cost used comes from the contract or from the profile (where you can set a cost different from the contract).
  • Show an icon if a NISS is invalid: shows an information icon next to the name when the NISS is not valid. It is purely informative and blocks nothing.

Overtime, absences and base hours

  • Absence counter reset month: the month from which the counters restart (for example January for a period from 1 January to 31 December).
  • Default working day hours: the value used to calculate daily hours when the employee's profile does not contain the necessary weekly hours and number of days.
  • Enable overtime counters: enables the automatic calculation of overtime. For this, the hours and the weekly number of days must be filled in in the employees' profiles.
  • Show absence counters in: in days or in hours. You can switch mode at any time, but will have to manually readjust the values already entered.
  • Full leave day: the number of hours from which Shyfter considers a leave as a full day.

Collective agreement / Joint committee

  • Select your collective agreement / joint committee: it defines the maximum working hours, break times and other legal obligations (for example JC 302 for the Horeca). This choice conditions Shyfter's compliance checks.
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