10 ways to better manage Employee Leave

Managing employee leave

can be

STRESSFUL

But here are some simple tips

that could help.

Be clear on both employer and employee rights.

1. Keep up to date with legislation

Ensure uniform treatment across the board.

2. Outline clear leave policies

Employees should give proper notice when applying for vacation time.

3. Set a clear leave notice period

This will help you keep up to date and informed.

4. Network within the HR community

Automate the process of importing leave data into your payroll. Software solutions can help relieve much of this work.

5. Automate leave import into your payroll

Some software solutions offer an employee portal that allows staff to apply for leave online and enables managers to approve or reject this accordingly.

6. Simplify your leave application process

Provide tools for management to see their resources available at any one given moment, so that they can approve or reject leave based on resource availability.

7. View staff resources available

Staff should also be able to view resources on any given day and will be more reluctant to apply for leave on a day when several of their colleagues are already absent.

8. Provide staff with a leave planner

Ensure managers/HR have access to updated and correct employee leave balances so that they may quickly determine whether an employee is eligible to pay while on the requested leave.

9. Access to updated leave balances

Encourage management to be empathetic towards employees who are requesting leave due to difficult personal issues. If handled wrongly, this can cause workplace morale problems both for the employee in question and those around them.

10. Empathy towards employees

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