Mertid
Mertid is the time a part-time employee works above their contract but up to the full-time measure. It differs from overtime, which is time beyond the full-time measure, and most Swedish collective agreements pay it at a lower rate.
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- Category
Working time and pay
- Also known as
additional hours · part-time overtime
- Sources
Arbetstidslagen (1982:673) section 10, on mertid for part-time employeesCollective agreement, for the rate
English has no single word for this, which is why the Swedish one is worth learning: your payroll administrator will use it, and so will your collective agreement.
Mertid and overtime are paid differently, and the line between them falls at the full-time measure. Someone on 60 per cent who works up to 40 hours in a week has worked mertid for the hours between 24 and 40. Only above 40 does it turn into overtime. Because contracted hours differ from person to person, that line cannot be set once for the whole workplace.
In PAXml, mertid is booked to the code MER.
How Timply handles it
Timply tells mertid from overtime using the contracted hours per week set on the employee, and treats full time as 40 hours. Mertid is booked as MER and gets its own column in the time report, separate from ÖT and ÖK.
Related terms
Overtime
Overtime is working time beyond ordinary working time, meaning beyond the full-time measure. The Swedish Working Hours Act caps how much overtime may be taken in a year, while what it is paid is set by a collective agreement or an employment contract.
Time off in lieu
Time off in lieu is overtime taken as leave rather than as money. It accrues with a factor set in the collective agreement, often so that one overtime hour gives more than one hour of leave, and is taken later as compensatory leave.
Payroll time code
A payroll time code says what kind of time an entry represents, for example hours worked, an unsocial hours premium, overtime or a particular reason for absence. In PAXml the field is called tidkodTYPE, and the code decides how the payroll system treats the hours.
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