Holiday and Sickness Entitlement
Changing contract hours/days
After setting up a staff member’s entitlement, you can edit the contracted hours and days from the entitlement table. 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 ...
Importing bank holidays
For the sake of ease, you can add bank holidays to your nursery all at once. Once added, these will apply to all calendars across the system, which removes the need to add bank holidays to terms individually. Click on Calendar in the sidebar. Click ...
Manually adding entitlement
Though the system can create a number of entitlement years automatically using information filled into the system, it will only do so for the current year, and the four years following (assuming they don’t have a set leave date). Additional ...
Changing a staff member’s contract type
If a staff member’s contract type is due to change from a permanent one to a temporary/casual one during their employment, or vice versa, you’re able to schedule it from the Contract/Entitlement tab of their profile. Go to the Staff page. Click on a ...
Overriding entitlement
If you’d like to change the holiday or sickness entitlement for a specific staff member, for a specific year, you can do this by overriding it. Overriding entitlement gives you more direct control over it, but this also means automatic calculations ...
Transferring entitlement
If a staff member has entitlement days remaining at the end of the year, you have the option of transferring the remaining entitlement to the new year. Go to the Staff page. Click on a staff member’s name to be taken to their profile. Click on the ...
Using opening balances for holiday/sickness entitlement
When an existing staff member is added to the system, they may have more or less holiday and sickness entitlement than the default due to holidays already taken or entitlement being transferred over. You’re able to account for these differences using ...
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 ...
Managing training entitlement
Training entitlement works slightly differently from holiday or sickness entitlement. To begin with, training is not considered an absence; it is booked within session scheduling. Remaining training entitlement also isn’t recorded on the ...
Requesting absences as a member of staff
If you have a staff login, you're able to request your own absences through the staff portal. Login to your staff portal. You'll be taken to your own profile by default. Click on the Staff Scheduling tab. Click on one of the days in the all-day row ...
Customising HR settings
On eypeople, you can keep track of how many holidays and sick days have been used by staff members, and how many remain. You’re able to customise holiday and sickness entitlement settings for all staff members in a nursery branch through HR Settings. ...
Customising lunch breaks for an individual
A break on eypeople is a set amount of time that is deducted from the total hours worked by a staff member each day. The default break hours are set in System Settings, but they can also be customised for specific staff members. Go to the Staff page. ...
Resetting entitlement
If you’d like to revert a change you’ve made to a staff member’s entitlement – for example, if you’ve overridden it – you always have the ability to reset it. This can be done for all entitlement, or for specific entitlement years. Resetting all ...