Understanding and following your decrees - Documentation Clic Horaire

A decree is the set of rules that decides everything else: floor rates by class, overtime, night premiums, paid or unpaid breaks, statutory holidays, banks. Everything Clic Horaire computes descends from it.

The good news is that there is almost nothing for you to do there. Official decrees are maintained by Clic Horaire: when the parity committee publishes an amendment, the new grid arrives dated, and your past calculations do not move.

Before you start

An administrator account with the “Manage payroll and decrees” permission.

1
Read the list of your decrees
“Decrees”, in the Payroll section, lists the agreements your organisation is subject to. An organisation often has several: a sector decree for field staff, the Act respecting labour standards for office staff.
Each line says three useful things: since when the current version has been in force, how many versions exist, and whether the decree is maintained by Clic Horaire or by you.
Three decrees here: two regional CPEEP decrees and the LNT.
“Provided by Clic Horaire”: amendments will arrive with nothing for you to do.
2
Open a decree
The record is split into seven tabs, one per family of rules: wages and premiums, time and breaks, statutory holidays, leave and banks, regions and territory, sources and references.
A green banner reminds you the decree is read-only. That is not a limitation: it is what guarantees the grid applied to your employees is the one that was published, and not a retouched copy.
The “Sources & references” tab points to the official text, section by section.
3
Understand effective dates
This is the central mechanism, and it is worth reading closely: a new date adds a version to the history, a date already used replaces the existing version.
In other words, a decree is not a state but a sequence of dated states. The calculation of a working day looks up the version in force that day: never the most recent one.
The expiry date beside it says when the decree stops applying if it is not renewed. It stays empty for what does not expire, such as the LNT.
The two dates bracket the life of the version on screen.
“Past calculations keep the old one”: that is the sentence protecting the payrolls you have already run.
Why a rate increase does not rewrite history
An approved timesheet locks in the calculation of its day, decree and version included. When the grid goes up, future hours follow; those already validated stay at the rate they were paid under. It is that combination (dated versions on one side, payroll snapshots on the other) that makes the history defensible in an inspection.
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Look at past versions
“Version history” opens the full sequence of grids, with the notes saying what each amendment changed from the one before.
That is where you go when an employee disputes an amount from two years ago: the version of the time is still readable.
The version counter in the list matches the number of entries here.
5
Subscribe to a decree from the catalogue
Below your active decrees, the catalogue lists the agreements Clic Horaire maintains: CCQ commercial and institutional, civil engineering, industrial, residential, security guards, and the others.
Subscribing installs the classes, the grids and the dated amendments in one go. The “Official source” link beside each entry leads to the published text, to check before committing.
The orange or purple badge shows which subscription module the agreement depends on.
6
Create a custom decree
If your agreement is not in the catalogue (a company agreement, a particular contract) it is keyed in by hand. The record is then editable, and it is up to you to keep it alive.
That is the only case where you carry the maintenance: a custom decree receives no automatic amendment.
Once created, a custom decree is managed exactly like the others.

What to remember

Which decree applies to a given day

The answer walks a four-level cascade: the shift may impose its decree, otherwise the project's applies, otherwise the client's, otherwise the organisation's. The first level that declares one explicitly wins. The shift creation dialog shows the level retained, and lets you override it for a particular case.

Classes come with the decree

Job classes and their floor rates belong to the decree, not to the employee record. That is why an employee's hourly rate is locked by default: it inherits from their class, and follows increases automatically.