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How to correct hour balances?

Explanation on how to correct overtime balance or leave balances.

Written by Lucas Schakel

Hour balances in the employee profile

You can check the overtime and leave balance of an employee in their profile.

The overtime balance is the balance as of today, regardless of hours approved or not. If this employee leaves your company today, this is what you owe them, if the number is positive or what they owe you if the number is negative.

The leave balance is updated on the 1st day of every month with the amount of leave hours the employee gets for working that month according to their contract. The leave balance also updates when a leave request of that employee gets approved.

Hour balances in Reports

You can also view the balances of your whole team in Reports > Balances. Here you'll find the vacation allowance balance, overtime balance, statutory leave balance, non-statutory leave balance, payable hours in case an employee leaves and the risk / costs of those hours you then have to pay the employee (or get back when the payable hours are a negative number).

Overtime balance

The overtime balance is created based on hours clocked by employees. If you feel like the overtime balance is wrong, you have to look at the worked hours of an employee and see if they are correct.

You can investigate in the profile of an employee, in the Hours tab.

If you want to change the overtime balance of an employee, please contact Soigné support and explain what you agreed on with your employee. If the employee agrees, we can adjust the overtime balance. You don't need to give proof of agreement when you want to remit overtime. When you want to add overtime hours to their balance we will need proof of agreement from the employee.

Leave balance

The leave balance per day is best checked in the Hours tab in the employee profile.

For example for this employee, the leave from 5 May - 9 May influences his leave balance. The leave is for 26 hours, which are divided over the 5 days he took leave; 5,2 hours per day are deducted from his leave balance.

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