Additional hours
Additional hours are the time a part-time employee works beyond their schedule but up to the full-time measure. They differ from overtime, which is time beyond the full-time measure, and most Swedish collective agreements pay them at a lower rate.
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- Category
Working time and pay
- Also known as
mertid
- Sources
Arbetstidslagen (1982:673) section 10, on additional hours for part-time employeesCollective agreement, for the rate
Additional hours and overtime are paid differently, and the line between them falls at the full-time measure.
An employee on 60 per cent who works up to 40 hours in a week has worked additional hours, not overtime, for the hours between 24 and 40. Only above 40 does it become overtime. Because the level of employment differs from person to person, the line cannot be set once for the whole workplace.
In PAXml, additional hours are booked to the code MER.
How Timply handles it
Timply uses your full-time measure to decide what is additional hours and what is overtime, per employee. Additional hours are booked as MER and get their 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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