Rules

Must and Try to

• MustTry toOverruledAI-discovered, check with a local expert
  Rule tagsMust: never broken. A roster that breaks it can't be published, and nobody who would break it is offered a shift. Try to: a preference, kept when possible, with a soft warning when it isn't. Overruled: a stricter rule applies instead. The amber label marks rules the AI found for a country eTime has no checked rules for.

What is on the screen

• Your company rules: your own rules, on top of the law. They can only make things stricter.
• Shift swaps: who approves swaps. See Sick calls, offers and swaps.
• Add rules with AI: for owners and admins.
• Collective agreements, if your workplace has one.
• The law: your country's working-time law. What eTime does not check yet lists the parts of the law a roster alone can't show; keep an eye on those yourself.
• How pay is worked out: pay rules, like night or overtime supplements. They all apply and add up.

Law packs

Each rule shows where it comes from. For another country, the AI can look up the working-time law and draft the rules for you to review: press Find the rules for …. These are marked AI-discovered: check them with a local expert.

Add a company rule

1. Press Add a company rule.
2. Choose what it is about: Rest between shifts, Weekly time off, Hours a week, Longest shift, Days in a row or Nights in a row.
3. Set the number. eTime tells you if it is stricter than the law, the same, or weaker (then the law applies instead).
4. Choose Must or Try to.
5. Optionally say Why?, like Agreed at the staff meeting, May 2026. It shows as the rule's source.
6. Press Add rule. The roster is checked against it from now on.

You can have one rule of each kind. Press Edit to change it, or Remove rule.

Add rules with AI

• Add a rule by chat: write the rule in plain words, like Nobody under 18 works after 21:00, and press Draft rule.
• Import a document: a collective agreement or staff handbook, as PDF or text, up to 10 MB. Each rule cites its page and paragraph.

Drafts wait for your review in Waiting for your review. Nothing is used until you accept it. Each draft card shows the rule, where it comes from and what it means for you. Press Accept, Edit or Reject. On a phone, swipe right to accept or left to reject. Accept the … sure ones accepts all drafts the AI is sure about.

• SureFairly sureUnsure
  How sure the AI isSure, Fairly sure or Unsure. Read the unsure ones carefully.

Names in what you write are swapped for codes before anything is sent.