Setting up holiday/sickness entitlement for a staff member
You can set up entitlement for an individual staff member in the Contract/Entitlement tab of the staff profile. eypeople is able to calculate holiday/sickness entitlement according to contracted hours, start/end dates, and contract days. Any absences booked in staff scheduling are also automatically deducted from remaining entitlement.
Changing holiday/sickness entitlement
- Go to the
Staff page.
- Click on a staff member’s name to be taken to their profile.
- Click on the Contract/Entitlement section in the sidebar.
- Holiday Entitlement and Sickness Entitlement days should be automatically filled in using details from HR Settings.
- Fill in this staff member’s Contract Hours/Week and Contracted Days/Week.
- Check the boxes for which days this staff member is scheduled to work in a given week.
- Check Temp/Casual Staff to mark them as a temporary or casual staff member.
- Click Update. The system will calculate holiday entitlement using the settings you have filled in and the staff member’s Start Date and Leave Date from the Profile tab.
- Clicking on the
icon next to an entitlement year will let you see a record of changes to the entitlement, as well as past and upcoming staff absences
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