New Leave Year Tasks

by Lee Porter 6. January 2015 11:27

WORKING YEAR CALENDAR 

When a new leave year approaches you will want to make sure a working year calendar exists to cover the period of time.  You can do this by going to Admin > Settings > Calendars > Your Calendars and click on the name of each working year calendar (NOTE: there may be more than one but you only need to consider calendars that have users using them (shown by the 3rd column of 'Num Users')).  Once the calendar is open you should check to see that the next leave year is covered by the Calendar Set Periods (i.e. the years).  If you need to add another year you should increase the 'Num Periods' by 1 (e.g. from 4 to 5) and submit.  This will add the next year to the Calendar Set Periods.  You should check that the Public Holidays, if any are added, are correct and you can remove and add more if needed.

Not having a working year calendar for a year will STOP ANY LEAVE BEING BOOKED THAT FALLS IN THAT YEAR. 

MANDATORY HOLIDAY CALENDAR

This is a similar task to the above but instead of bank holidays and non working days it holds leave days that are forced booked for anyone who uses that Mandatory Calendar.  It is good practice to have a year in the Mandatory calendar added for each year in the working year calendar, even if there are no mandatory dates in the calendar.

LEAVE CYCLES

When a working year calendar is available, then just by booking a leave request will automatically add the leave year if it doesn't already exist.  If you would prefer to add all the leave years for all staff you can do so by going to Admin > System Functionality > Leave > Leave Cycles > Next Year.

MISC

A few jobs to consider:

Any leave rules that work across dates such as management meetings (Admin > System Functionality > Leave > Absence Rules)

Cancel any draft leave thats not needed (Admin > System Functionality > Leave > Current Draft Requests)

Approve or reject any leave that is waiting for approval that's in the past

Add any manual adjustments to individuals leave years for things like extra days for length of service

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