In this article you can find out how to manage contract types in Shiftbase.
Every employee in Shiftbase has a contract which stems from a contract type. A contract type is a set of rules which are of influence to the individual their contract.
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Contract type overview
The overview of all contract types you can find under Settings > Employees > Contract types. In this overview, you can see all active contract types in your account.
Contracttype toevoegen
If you wish to add a new contract type, click on the button +Contract types.
Editing a contract type
To change an existing contract type, click on the pencil icon on the right side.
Now, the following screen will appear where you can change the contract details.
Name: The name of the contract type
Payment basis: Decide how the employee who has this contract type assigned will be paid. Chose to be paid according to the amount of hours in the contract or on the amount of worked hours.
Cost to company: Use the cost to company feature to anticipate on the total cost of an employee which includes salary, employee taxations, insurances, etc. This percentage will be uses as a save percentage for the schedule, timesheet and reports. You can enable or disable this setting in the general schedule settings.
Rate card: The rate card which applies to this contract type. The standard pay-out is 100% unless the rate card indicates differently! The rate card selected here is applied to the timesheet.
Plus minus calculation: By enabling plus minus calculation, the plus-minus hours will be used for every employee who has this contract type.
Absence policy: Select the corresponding absence policy here. Employees with this absence type will receive the adjacent absence balances and rules.
Overtime policy: You can insert an overtime policy whenever the employees of this contract time need to register overtime hours. With an overtime policy, you can decide the amount of hours which should be considered overtime on a daily or weekly basis.
⚠️ Warning: An employee needs to have a contract in Shiftbase. If you want to delete a contract type, you will need to give the employees who have this contract type, another contract type first.