We’ve added a new report to help you quickly calculate the BC Sick Pay owed to employees when they call in sick. Read the help article here.
New report – BC Sick Pay Calculations (Jan 1, 2022)
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How to make SICK DAY – PAID export in payroll
If you want SICK DAY - PAID to be exported in payroll, follow these steps.
How can I let managers approve absences during black out periods?
Follow these steps
Attendance Tracking
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...
Paid Vacation and Stat Pay Calculation
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
What happens when I add an absence and there is already a scheduled shift?
Let’s take an employee that has a scheduled shift on Jul 10 If an absence is recorded for that day for that employee You will be prompted to take an action:
How can employees delete their absences/availability?
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
Updates to system
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...
What happens if a schedule exists?
If you are adding an absence when an employee has a schedule, you will be prompted to pick an action for the schedule
Availability Restrictions
Scheduling has been updated so the rules of availability will allow or block schedules based on what has been approved. Read more
Mark a Sick Day on Dashboard
We've added the ability to mark an employee sick right from the dashboard.
Paid and Unpaid Sick Days
We’ve broken out SICK DAYS into PAID and UNPAID. PAID can now be exported to payroll as RT. Read the HOW TO here.
Easily See Which Schedule Is Posted
We've added icons to the department list to quick see which are published and which are unpublished. The CLOSED lock means it is published, OPEN lock means it's unpublished.
Update to Absence Reports
We’ve added a multi-picker to the absence reports so you can pick multiple absence types at once and report on it.
Allow employees to see other employees absences
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.
YTD Absences and Availability
When approving absences and availability, we now show the approved and pending YTD totals for the employee based on the absence category.
Print List button on Absence request page
We've added a new print list button to create a printed list of absences for the month.
