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Part-time work
Your work is considered part-time work if your working hours are a maximum of 80% of the maximum working hours of full-time work. When working part-time, your actual working hours will be taken into account for the adjustment period during which the wages for them are paid. When a daily allowance is applied for e.g. monthly cycles, the hours worked are compared to a monthly full-time working time. When comparing working time to a month, it is always considered to consist of 21.5 business days.
Example
You have entered the work hours for part-time work that you have done in April in the application for April 2022. You will be paid a salary for that part-time work in May. The working time and salary of part-time work in April will only affect the adjusted earnings allowance paid in May because the salary is paid in May. If the working time limit is not exceeded in April, the benefit of the May is paid out adjusted. If the working time limit is exceeded for hours worked in April, no benefit is paid and the amount of the salary is irrelevant. In April, the benefit will be paid in full if no other adjustable income is paid during the period.
Example
You have an hourly paid part-time work and you are applying for an adjusted daily allowance in monthly periods and the salary will be paid in the next month. The hours worked are always compared to the calculated full-time work working time. You do part-time work 6 hours/Mon-Fri. The maximum working hours, that is, of a person who works full-time, is 37.5 hours a week and 7.5 hours per day. The maximum working time, i.e. 80% of the working time of a FTE, is 129 hours (7.5 h x 21.5 d x 80%) each month.
You work for 138 hours (23 days X 6 h/d) in March. The salary will be paid in April, so the working time will be taken into account in April. Your working hours exceed 80% of the maximum working time (129 hours) for a full-time employee, so it is not possible to pay daily allowance for June.
You work for 126 hours (20 days X 6 h/d) in April. The salary will be paid in May, so the working time will be taken into account in May. Your working hours do not exceed 80% of the maximum working time (129 hours) for a full-time employee, so it is possible to pay a daily allowance for May.
Layoff
If you have been laid off to work shorter days or a shortened work week, your working hours are viewed per calendar week (Monday to Sunday).
Example
The working hours of a full-time employee is 37.5 hours a week. 80% of that is 30 hours a week. You work 25 hours a week, which means that your working hours are less than 80% of the maximum working hours.
Example
The working hours of a full-time employee is 37.5 hours a week. 80% of that is 30 hours a week. You work 30.5 hours a week, which means that your working hours exceed the 80% threshold. You will not receive daily allowance.
Example
The working hours of a fulltime employee are 37,5 hours per week. The limit of 80% is 30 hours. You work from Monday to Friday, 6 hours per day, which means your lay-off type is “shortened daily working hours”. In August there are 23 working days (Monday to Friday), and so the working hours in August have been 138 hours (23 days x 6 hours/day). You work for 30 hours during each calendar week. Due to the payment-based adjustment, the salary and the working hours it is based on is allocated based on when the salary was paid, even if the work was done outside that period. The salary of August is paid on 19.8. All the working hours, 138 hours, must be allocated onto the calendar week when it was paid (15.-21.8.). The paid 138 hours exceed 80% of the maximum working hours of the week and so the working hours limit is exceeded 15.-21.8.
The working hours of a part-time entrepreneur are not calculated. The income from an enterprise is accounted for in the adjustment period at the time of payment. You must send details of the business operations to the unemployment fund. What these details are depend on the type and duration of business operations. Read more: Adjust of income from business operations and your own work