Leave and absence management provides the following features:
Define leave and absence types.
Leave types define the various types of absences that employees can report. Because these types are user-defined, they can be tailored to your organization. Some typical leave types include paid time off (PTO), leave, short-term disability, jury duty (this leave type is specific to the United States), and bereavement.
Define leave and absence plans that are tiered to fit your business.
Leave and absence plans can be defined so that accrual occurs at specific frequencies, such as annually, monthly, or semimonthly. Plans can also be defined as a grant, where a single accrual occurs on a specific date.
Leave plans often contain tiers, where some groups of employees receive additional benefits, based on the amount of time that they have been with the organization. These user-defined tiers enable automatic enrollment in additional benefit hours, based on the date criteria that are defined. Leave plans can also be configured to enforce a maximum carry-over amount or a minimum balance, to prevent employees from using more benefit hours than they have accrued.
Typical leave plans include tiered plans that grant a benefit of 80 hours of PTO to new employees but a benefit of 120 hours after 60 months of service. Additional plans might grant floating holidays or position-based benefits, such as executive-only benefit hours.
Enroll employees in leave and absence plans individually or through mass assignment that is based on job criteria.
Several job-related filters can be used to assign a group of employees to a leave plan. HR managers can view an employee to see what leave and absence plans the employee is enrolled in. Alternatively, HR managers can view all plans and the related employee enrollments.
Suspend leave and absence plans.
Leave and absence plans can be suspended to make them inactive and prevent additional accruals. Accruals are suspended for employees if their employment ends.
Adjust entitlements and grants.
An employee can be enrolled in a higher plan tier by using a worker-specific date to override the employee's default plan offering. Employees can receive a manual adjustment to their leave and absence balance at the time of plan enrollment, or HR can make a manual adjustment at any time.
Apply a workflow to time-off requests.
A workflow can be customized and applied to time-off requests to meet the organization’s requirements.
Track employee absence balances.
Employees, their manager, and HR can view leave and absence balances. HR can use interactive reports to track plan enrollments and time-off balances by type.
Submit time-off requests.
Employees can submit time-off requests against their available hours. Requests can be simple single-day requests or multiple-day requests that include multiple leave and absence types. If a workflow isn't enabled, the requests are automatically approved. If a workflow is enabled, the approval can be automatic, or it can require sign-off, depending on the workflow configuration.
