Did you know that you can use LeaveMaster to book and record any type of leave, not just annual leave or sickness absence, as long it is offered by your organisation?

We can implement LeaveMaster so that employees can use LeaveMaster’s fast, automated system to quickly and easily request alternative leave types such as unauthorised leave, unpaid leave and training leave.

The different types of leave offered by your organisation are displayed in a drop down menu on LeaveMaster’s Apply for Leave page. Staff simply choose the type of leave they wish to take from the menu and select the dates of the leave from a calendar, and LeaveMaster does the rest by automatically populating a form with details of the leave request.

You can find out more about LeaveMaster’s powerful automated features here.

 

One of the problems with using a manual, paper-based system to book and process leave requests is that each time a member of staff books a holiday, either the employee or their line manager has to manually recalculate the amount of holiday the employee still has left to take that year.

This not only takes time, there is also always the danger that the employee’s leave balance will be incorrectly recalculated, resulting either in a line manager needing to correct the balance, wasting even more time, or the employee taking more, or less, holiday than they were entitled to that year.

Whenever an employee books leave using LeaveMaster however, their remaining leave balance is automatically readjusted and displayed, so no time is wasted on recalculating balances and there are never any doubts or confusion over how many days’ leave employees have taken and how many days they have remaining.
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Organisations who use LeaveMaster frequently tell us that, as a result of implementing the solution, their employees are spending significantly less time on unproductive and time-consuming administrative procedures and more time on their core tasks and activities.

LeaveMaster frees up staff to focus on more productive tasks because it takes only half the time for an employee to make a leave request using the application than it does using a traditional paper-based holiday management system, while LeaveMaster also cuts the time line managers have to spend on processing leave requests by as much as two-thirds.

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Want to know who’s absent today in your organisation? Using LeaveMaster, it could not be quicker or simpler to find out.

LeaveMaster’s shared leave calendar contains a useful who’s off today feature. At the click of a button, you can see exactly who in your organisation is off sick or on holiday on the current day; so you can re-schedule meetings and avoid forwarding customer or supplier phone calls to absent members of staff.

The shared leave calendar in LeaveMaster also allows you to see who is going to be away in your organisation on any upcoming day of the year.

To find out more about LeaveMaster’s powerful features and functionality, click here.

 

According to a new sickness absence survey, UK manufacturers gained, on average, an extra one day of work per employee last year due to lower absence levels.

Conducted by manufacturers' organisation the EEF and Unum, a financial protection provider, the survey also found that 41% of manufacturing companies saw a decrease in short-term sickness absence last year, while, on average, 44% of manufacturing employees did not take a day off sick in 2009.

You can view the results of the survey here.

Or to find out how you can use LeaveMaster to lower your organisation’s absence levels, click here  

 

 

One of the benefits of implementing a leave management system such as LeaveMaster in your organisation is that, should it ever be needed, it gives you statistical and irrefutable evidence of staff absenteeism.

By allowing you to quickly and easily record staff sick days on a web-based application, LeaveMaster creates a permanent, online history of sick leave for every member of staff in your organisation. And as LeaveMaster also automatically calculates each employee’s ongoing Bradford Factor score, it also reveals which of your employees have been taking “little but often” sick leaves, which can indicate unwarranted absence.

This means that your line managers have accurate, indisputable data that they can refer to when addressing staff who they believe have been taking unwarranted sick days. The data collected in LeaveMaster can also be used to show evidence of absenteeism should the issue go to a tribunal.

You can find out more about reducing absenteeism using LeaveMaster here