We’ve launched an update when recording an absence for an employee who has a shift, you can link the WHOLE shift or part of the shift. For example if someone is scheduled for an 8hr shift and needs a 4hr absence, you can now split the shift. Read more here.
If you are looking to manage when employees can take time off, say 2 weeks from now or further out, read more here on how to do it.
If you want SICK DAY - PAID to be exported in payroll, follow these steps.
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The Importance of Attendance TrackingFor Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), their employees are often their biggest asset, and also their biggest expense. So when employees miss work for long stretches of time - possibly due to injury, illness or mental health...
If an employee is away on PAID vacation, their hours need to be included in the stat pay calculation as RT hours. To ensure the stat pay calculator does this, turn this ON, just check off the setting below
Let’s take an employee that has a scheduled shift on Oct 15 If an absence is recorded for that day for that employee You will be prompted to take an action:
When an absence or availability is pending, an employee can delete or edit. However, once it is approved, only their managers can. Read more here
Over the weekend we launched a few updates to the system On the absence page when viewing the absence details we show WHO created the absence (in case it wasn't the employee) On the employee dashboard (the list of everyone working today), we've added the option to...
If you are adding an absence when an employee has a schedule, you will be prompted to pick an action for the schedule
Scheduling has been updated so the rules of availability will allow or block schedules based on what has been approved. Read more
We've added the ability to mark an employee sick right from the dashboard.
We’ve broken out SICK DAYS into PAID and UNPAID. PAID can now be exported to payroll as RT. Read the HOW TO here.
We've added icons to the department list to quick see which are published and which are unpublished. The CLOSED lock means it is published, OPEN lock means it's unpublished.
We’ve added a multi-picker to the absence reports so you can pick multiple absence types at once and report on it.
If you want your employees to see each other absences, you can turn this on by going to MANAGE MY BUSINESS, MANAGE SCHEDULE AND TIME CARD SETTINGS and enabling this option.
When approving absences and availability, we now show the approved and pending YTD totals for the employee based on the absence category.
We've added a new print list button to create a printed list of absences for the month.
As an employee, to add time off select the 'Absence Request' button. On the calendar, select the correct month and day and click the 'Add Request' link. On the add request page, select the reason and add any comments you wish to share. Click Add. When you click add,...