{"id":522,"date":"2006-09-13T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2006-09-12T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T03:25:05","slug":"leaves-administration-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Leaves Administration Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll quietly admit that I don’t know enough about absence management and leaves administration.\u00a0 About all I know is that FMLA, state permutations around FMLA and absence policies are somewhat complex.<\/p>\n

Reading this article<\/a>, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m totally convinced that best of bred solutions are always the best way to go, but as with any software choice, it is a good option many times.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to think that an organization\u2019s timekeeping system will generally be robust enough to cover most absence management.\u00a0 Systems like Kronos and Workbrain should come with enough functionality out of the box (ok, perhaps an additional module) to perform the basics of absence tracking and metrics.<\/p>\n

When things get trickier is when the compliance factors of leaves management come into play.\u00a0 Most leaves are fairly easy to administer even when you apply different policies to different groups and classes of employees.\u00a0 Other leaves like FMLA can be much more difficult.\u00a0 With many states having their own variations of the FMLA law (in California, CFRA cannot run concurrently with PDL giving an expecting mother up to 7 months of leave time\u2026) the policies must be programmed to accommodate many different scenarios, and specialized software probably has an advantage of doing things correctly right out of the box.\u00a0 For example I have no expectation that the timekeeping systems most ERP\u2019s provide will have state rules already programmed in, but your timekeeping system\u2019s leaves module might.<\/p>\n

When leaves administration systems get really fun is when you deploy the self service and workflow routines.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Employee requests FMLA leave<\/li>\n
  2. Manager receives request<\/li>\n
  3. Manager goes through automated questionnaire to determine if the leave is FMLA eligible<\/li>\n
  4. Manager approves leave<\/li>\n
  5. System periodically gets updates during leave.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The critical issue in self service is not that you\u2019re automating tons of paper, although that\u2019s a great advantage.\u00a0 The critical issue is that your manager are enforcing actual policies and laws that have been encoded into an application rather than interpreting the law on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ll quietly admit that I don’t know enough about absence management and leaves administration.\u00a0 About all I know is that FMLA, state permutations around FMLA and absence policies are somewhat complex. Reading this article, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m totally convinced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-workforce-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}