New: monthly targets and working-time form in take-home pay planning

Monthly targets

Sometimes one number is not enough: an employee wants €1,800 in hand in May but less in June. The take-home target is now set month by month, alongside the hours for each period. Planning splits the target across pay months and shows the estimated result one month at a time.

Hours are given per period, the target per month. The estimate uses the tax card and statutory contribution percentages according to the pay date. The pay date is the end of the month plus the restaurant's pay-date shift. Periods that cross the turn of the year are handled too. For a shift type you can define when the unpaid break starts, and the estimate counts only paid hours: for example, a 16–24 shift with a break is 7,5 h.

Working-time form and consent

The working-time form is now chosen per employee: standard or the averaging system, which applies to a full-time employee paid a monthly salary. A change starts at the earliest at the beginning of the next averaging period (tasoittumiskausi). Plana's basis is MaRa TES 12 § 1: the start and end of the period are shown in the shift roster (työvuorolista), and a surplus or deficit of hours cannot be carried over to the next period. The selection dialog shows the difference in additional-work and overtime pay between the standard form and the averaging system for the same number of hours.

Consent is recorded per period. Under section 17 of the Working Hours Act, overtime requires the employee's consent for each occasion, and it can be given for a fairly short period at a time. Additional work (lisätyö) may be required only with consent, unless it has been agreed in the employment contract. If a target is set but there is no consent, planning stays within the contract hours and the limit hours. With consent, planning can use at most the agreed amount. Without recorded consent, then, no additional work or overtime (ylityö) is planned.

More on the features: Plan from take-home pay.