How to Manage Employee Leave & Time Off

14 May, 2020

Manage Employee Leave and Time Off

Employees can take leave for many reasons, sometimes it may be with notice, and sometimes it is unexpected. Employees may be sick or may have to take care of a sick family member, or they might be going on a long relaxing holiday.   

Different types of leave include annual leave, sick (personal) /carer’s leave, community service leave, maternity leave, compassionate leave, long service leave, and more. All employees and entitled to these leave types except for casual employees. Leave is accrued each pay period and, in most circumstances, is controlled with payroll.   

Find out more information about leave types from the Fair Work website

Managing employee leave manually using paper leave applications can become tedious and time-consuming. Making sure you replace their shift or jobs while they are away, tracking leave accruals and balances. There are so many areas to consider. With so many different types of leave, how can you manage this alongside your employee’s timesheet and payroll?   

Leave Management is easy with Workforce TNA! 

All employee leave requests can be submitted through the system. Workforce TNA will take care of your requests, accruals, approvals and send all the right information to payroll.   

Features  

Eliminate Paper Forms & Spreadsheets  

Eliminate paper leave forms and ditch your messy spreadsheets or paper forms. Workforce TNA handles leave requests & digital approvals, which can be viewed on the department leave calendar.    

Employee Requests  

Employees can request leave from the self-service web portal, or My Workforce TNA employee app. Employees can see which team members are on leave from the calendar before applying for leave. When the request approved or denied the status of the request will change.  

Managing Leave  

Managers can view, approve and decline requests and manage pending requests online with just one click, making it easy to deal with several requests. Managers will receive a notification when a request is submitted, or changes are made to the request. The simple approval process automatically notifies employees of your decision.  

Employee Requests  

Employees can request leave from the self-service web portal, or My Workforce TNA employee app. Employees can see which team members are on leave from the calendar before applying for leave. When the request approved or denied the status of the request will change. An employee can request sick leave and attach a copy of their medical certificate, which is saved to the employee’s profile.   

Sync to Payroll    

All approved leave is sent directly to payroll, so you don’t have to export your employees leave separately. We also offer two-way integration with MYOB, Xero and Unipay payroll, which automatically sends updated leave balances each pay period.    

Benefits   

There are many benefits of managing employee time off and leave requests with Workforce TNA. These include:  

  • Eliminates paper leave requests and email trails    
  • Requests are actioned promptly    
  • Managers can easily track employee leave requests from the department leave calendar    
  • Managers can view employee’s leave balance before approving the leave request     
  • Plan and schedule public holiday dates for when your business might be closed or at its busiest    
  • Approved leave is sent directly to your payroll system  
  • Managers can add a request on behalf of an employee, for example, sick leave 

For more information on employee leave management visit our features page here or contact our friendly team at Aussie TimeSheets today to learn more about Workforce TNA.

Customer Feeback  

What the Pros of the system?  

“Automatic syncing between timeclocks, ability to capture various OT rates, mobile clock in/out, applying for and tracking annual leave and sick leave. The exceptions and home page where I can see straightaway who is in/away etc”.

Mark from Lakeshore