# General HR settings

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

Source: https://help.shyfter.com/en/settings/general-hr-settings  
Category: Settings  
Updated: 2026-06-30

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.