Leave & attendance
Who is off, who approved it, and what it costs — with unpaid days flowing straight into payroll instead of being remembered wrongly at month-end.
Leave policy
Configure leave policy sets the rules once:
- Leave types — annual, sick, compassionate, maternity/paternity, unpaid
- Entitlement per type
- Whether a type is paid or unpaid — unpaid days reduce pay through the daily pay divisor
- Who approves each request
Set this before people start requesting, so the first requests are measured against real rules.
Requesting and approving
Staff with self-service access request leave themselves; otherwise HR records it for them.
Requests land in the People Inbox with the dates and reason. Approve or decline — declines take a reason, which prevents the same argument twice.
An approvals backlog figure in People Analytics shows when requests are piling up. Leave sitting unapproved is a staffing problem waiting to happen: people plan around an answer they have not been given.
Attendance corrections
When the record is wrong — a missed clock-in, a shift worked that was not logged — staff raise an attendance correction request rather than anyone editing history quietly. It goes through the same approval path and lands on the audit trail.
How leave reaches pay
Approved unpaid leave days become unpaid leave days in the payroll period inputs, converted to money by the daily pay divisor. Paid leave has no effect on pay, which is the point of it.
Check period inputs before approving a run — see Payroll.
Planning
Department coverage in People Analytics shows where you are thin. Approving three of five kitchen staff for the same week is easy to do accidentally and obvious to avoid once you can see it.