Contracts permissions in Factorial determine who can view, create, edit, and manage employee contracts within your organisation. In this article, you’ll learn what each contracts permission allows, how they affect user access, and how to configure them correctly to match your internal roles and workflows.

How to set up your Contract permissions

1. In your sidebar, go to Settings
2. Click on Permissions
3. Select the Contracts section
4. Enable or diable permissions 
5. Click on Save changes

Contract permissions

• Change weeks per month configuration
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to specify how many weeks on average a month has. The configuration is set on a legal entity basis. This configuration is later used to project employee hours calculations.

• Create new compensation categories
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to create new compensations categories from Payroll settings, during the process to define supplements when running Payroll. 

•  Edit contract settings
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to set contract settings: approval system and employee’s notifications.

• Delete contracts
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to delete contracts that have already been created.

• Edit contracts: updates and fixes
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to update all contract fields by creating new conditions and correct contracts that have already been created.

• Edit gross salary
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to edit the Gross Salary of the employee in question. 

• Promote
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to promote employees (updating role, salary and additional compensations) in contracts by creating new conditions.

• See additional compensation 
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the compensations of the employee in question.

• See contract extra information
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view additional details on an employee’s contract that are not included in the basic contract overview. 

• See contract type
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the type of employment contract that employees have within the system.

• See contracts tab 
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to see the section corresponding to contracts within each employee. 

• See end date
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the end date of the employee contract.

• See job title
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the Job Title of the employee in question.

• See payroll policy
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the rules and settings that govern payroll for employees. A payroll policy includes things like:
  • Salary calculation methods (fixed, hourly, commission-based)
  • Overtime rules
  • Bonus structures
  • Deductions (taxes, social security, benefits)
  • Payment frequency (monthly, biweekly, etc.)

• See pending promotions
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to see and filter employees by pending promotion status in the employee list.

• See salary in profile
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the Gross Salary of the employee in question. 

• See start date
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the employee's start date, and company anniversaries on the calendar.

• See trial period
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view information about employees’ probation or trial periods.

• See trial period end date
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the end date of the trial period in an employee’s profile.

• See updater details
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view who and when created the contract.

• See working day type
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the classification of an employee’s working day. This refers to how an employee’s work schedule is categorised. 

• See working hours
  
  This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to view the work schedule of the employee in question.