Employees from outside the EU, the EEA and Switzerland need a residence
permit, and HR needs to know when it expires — about eighty people in
the current data, across Türkei, Serbien and Bosnien. Two columns, the
same shape as the dismissal protection: a flag and a date that only
means anything with it. The date is optional, because an open-ended
permit has none and a mandatory field would force an invented one.
The nationality coupling deliberately stays out of the database. Putting
it there would mean keeping the country list in two places — SQL and
lib/countries.ts, where the picker needs it anyway — so an EU accession
would become a migration instead of a line in a list. Worse, correcting
somebody's nationality would fail the constraint while the old permit
was still attached, which is exactly the moment someone is fixing a
mistake. The UI decides whether the fields appear, and clears them when
the nationality moves into the free-movement area.
So the list is the load-bearing part, and it is tested: 31 entries, all
of them values the picker can actually produce, no duplicates, no third
countries. A missing nationality reads as "no permit required" — an
unanswered question is a reason to record it, not to demand papers.
The permit shows on the Stammdaten tab only for the nationalities it
applies to. A line reading "Aufenthaltstitel: Nein" under an Austrian
citizenship would look like information rather than a question that does
not arise.
Filter by it and by when it expires — the question behind that being
"whose permit runs out next quarter" — plus columns in the export.
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Last step moved the four part-time arrangements out of the absence list
and recorded the reason in the history text. That answered "what
happened" but not "who is in one right now", and the profile showed
nothing at all. So it becomes a real field: teilzeit_art, with an
optional end date.
The objection I raised then still holds — a state goes stale, because
nobody goes back to note when a Bildungsteilzeit ended. teilzeit_bis is
the answer to it: with an end date a report decides for itself what is
still running instead of trusting that someone maintained the row. Left
empty it means "open end", which is an honest thing to say.
It runs through the ordinary change machinery rather than beside it. It
sits in app_feld_karte, so it shows up in the history as a field with
before and after, and can be corrected there like any other. The
description suffix from last step is gone — writing the same thing twice
is how two versions start disagreeing.
Reporting: filter by variant, by "in one at all", and by when it ends;
group headcount by variant, where the absence of one reads "Keine"
rather than a dash, because in a report that is an answer and not a gap.
Plus columns in the export and the import.
One gap found while rehearsing, and only because the probe happened to
pick a return date in the future: a scheduled return carries its payload
through pending_org_changes, and that payload did not include the
variant. Someone would have come back on reduced hours in April with the
reason gone. The daily run now carries it too.
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Works council members, expectant mothers, parents on leave, registered
disabled employees, apprentices — each has its own rules that come
before a dismissal. The tool does not judge whether one is lawful, but
it must not stay quiet about it either, and looking it up on the
contract tab is exactly the step that gets skipped under time pressure.
So: a checkbox, an optional end date, and a red warning at the top of
the termination panel naming the date — or saying plainly that no end
was recorded. It shows for a no-show too; the protection runs from the
start of the contract, not the first day worked.
The date is optional on purpose. A works council mandate has a known
end, a pregnancy does not, and a mandatory field would force an invented
number. A constraint says only what cannot be: an end date without the
flag, which would be a leftover nobody could interpret.
The field goes the whole way through — hire, data change, contract
sheet, export, report criteria (as a yes/no and as a date range), and
the import. A field that exists in one screen and not the next is how
people stop trusting the numbers.
Terminating is now offered for planned entries as well, labelled "Nicht
angetreten", with No Show preselected. Without it a person who never
turned up stayed a planned entry forever, since nothing else can end
one.
One finding worth recording: tsc has been reporting success on a broken
program. A generated file under .next got corrupted when a build ran
against a live dev server, and its syntax errors suppressed semantic
checking everywhere else — two genuine type errors in this change went
unreported until I typechecked with .next excluded. The file is removed
and the ordinary typecheck is meaningful again.
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Someone hired who then does not start needs an exit reason of its own,
and until now the case could not be recorded at all. Terminating on the
entry date failed on chk_assignment_range: the assignment was closed
with valid_to = valid_from, and an empty interval is forbidden there.
Moving the exit to the next day would have claimed a day of employment
that never happened — headcount, tenure, every as-of report.
"No Show" is now an exit reason, and it behaves differently in three
ways.
The exit date is always the entry date, whatever the caller passed. That
is what makes "never active" true rather than asserted: a person counts
as employed when their exit date is *after* the reporting date, and here
it never is. The status derivation needed no change at all — it already
says Geplant before the entry date and Ausgetreten from it on.
The position assignment is deleted rather than closed. The post was
never filled, it goes back to being open, and nothing records a holder
who never held it.
The status column goes to Ausgetreten immediately, even for an entry
still in the future. Otherwise it would read Geplant forever — nothing
runs later to correct it.
A constraint holds the first of those regardless of the path in,
including the import: exit_reason is distinct from 'No Show' or
exit_date = entry_date. "is distinct from" rather than "<>" so an empty
reason does not evaluate to null and slip through — the same three-
valued trap that let an earlier check pass the case it was written to
stop.
The dialog locks the date field when No Show is picked and says why, so
nobody types a date that would then be silently overridden. The
offboarding checklist is hidden: nothing was ever handed out.
Rehearsed against real data — a planned entry with a 2099 date passed
in, which came back as the entry date; derived status across three
reporting dates never Aktiv; a direct write with a mismatched date
refused; and an ordinary termination unchanged.
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