Work rules
Work rules are the settings that turn clocked hours into pay. Every project has its own set, and they apply to everyone on that project unless a specific deal says otherwise.
What the rules cover
- Base hours — the length of a standard day (often 10 hours). Work beyond this earns overtime.
- Overtime tiers — successive bands of overtime, each paid at a higher multiple of the hourly rate.
- Daily cap — limits how high any single overtime tier's rate can climb.
- Premiums — extra pay for nights, Sundays and public holidays, and for long runs of consecutive days. A rule-set can also grant a premium-free Sunday allowance: a share of the scheduled shoot days (say 10%) on which Sundays and public holidays pay no premium. The first ones in the schedule are free; any beyond the allowance pay the premium as usual. Leave it at 0% to charge every Sunday and holiday.
- Turnaround — minimum rest between shifts; too little rest earns compensation.
- Per-diems & mileage — flat daily allowances and travel reimbursement, billed net and taxed at 21% on the invoice.
For exactly how these combine into a number, see How pay is calculated.
Starting from a template
You don't have to build rules from scratch. Start from a work-rules template (managed from your profile) and adjust it for the project. Set rules up before crew log hours, so every calculation is right from day one.
Changing a project's work rules affects pay for hours calculated afterwards. A crew member's signed deal memo keeps its own frozen copy of the agreed terms, so it isn't rewritten by later changes.
Overrides
Some sections of the rules can be overridden for an individual deal during negotiation — for example a different day rate or pay model. Anything not overridden falls back to the project's work rules.
Off-plan thresholds
Open Work rules from the project overview; at the bottom of that panel you set when a submitted timesheet counts as off-plan. Each timesheet is compared against the scheduled call-to-wrap window; if the worked hours run further over or under plan than your thresholds allow, the timesheet is flagged during review so it gets a closer look. Leave a field blank to use the standard threshold (shown under the field).
These thresholds only flag timesheets for review — they never change anyone's pay. Because of that they stay editable even when the work rules are locked by a signed deal memo or the Fijn Weekend standard.
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