The most common type of employee leave and a statutory right, it is important that employees get their full annual leave entitlement each year. But employees rarely take their full entitlement in one go. AnnualLeave manages each employee’s entitlement separately, carry forward unclaimed time off and calculate remaining annual entitlements.

Pregnant employees are entitled to a specific period of time off work, covering both their pregnancy term and a certain period after their child is born. Now you can stay up to date on an employee’s Maternity Leave status and expected back-to-work date.

Expectant fathers are also entitled to set periods of Paternity Leave, whether their partner is having a baby, they are adopting a child or there is a surrogacy arrangement.

Parental Leave can be granted to an employee that needs to look after their child’s welfare, Shared Parental Leave allows eligible parents to share time off work after their child is born. This can result in complex arrangements, like an employee taking only a portion of their entitlement and returning to work, before resuming their leave at a later date.

An employee who becomes an adoptive parent is entitled to Adoption Leave. As with any other parental status, AnnualLeave can record the period of time off your employee takes, and note their return to work date.

Employees who have a disability are entitled to paid time away from work for certain purposes, including medical treatment, physiotherapy, rehabilitation therapy, medical assessments relating to their disability, and any recovery time they might require.

Illness can strike anyone and without warning. But employees are entitled to get a certain number of days or hours paid Sick Leave. Because all data on AnnualLeave is updated in Real Time, each employee’s time off sick can be accurately recorded, and entitlements automatically adjusted.

When employees with dependants need time off to deal with an emergency situation, you can input an agreed period of Compassionate Leave. So, you can more easily manage personnel resources and see when that employee is due to return.

Some employees may serve a public role that requires them to take time off work – for example, be a Justice of the Peace. With AnnualLeave, you can record Public Service Leave whenever it is required, and store the data to analyse later.

From time to time, an employee may be called up for jury service and you are obliged to grant Jury Leave. But when that call up comes, your employee’s absence can be easily recorded and incorporated in overall data reports.

Visual representations are the easiest way to assess data at a glance. And with so much information to digest – from employee leave periods to unplanned absence patterns – it’s important that a HR manager can do so.

AnnualLeave provides a calendar interface, complete with colour-coded icons, so you can see who is off and when they’re due back in just seconds.

For deeper insights, AnnualLeave can compile a wide range of detailed reports at a click. You can examine leave trends, check entitlements, show employee-specific patterns and, crucially, examine how severely unplanned absences are affecting productivity.

Updated in real time to guarantee accuracy, the data is communicated in clear, colorful graphic presentations, making it simple to digest.

Whether you are managing the needs of a large manufacturing operation or a small project team, maintaining personnel numbers is crucial to ensuring productivity is never broken. So, it’s important to structure employee leave to satisfy minimum resource requirements.

Resource planning is made simple because AnnualLeave stores all of the information in real time and matches it with pre-set company policies and requirements. The system applies the data automatically, calculating how many staff must be on duty and, therefore, how many can avail of leave.

This can be invaluable in meeting OHS regulations, where a particular number of qualified safety and first aid officers are required to be present at all times by law.

Because the AnnualLeave system, and all of its associated software, makes use of Cloud storage, users require neither IT expertise nor any IT support teams on standby. It also increases accessibility, with employees and managers able to log in at any time and from any location.

Protecting confidential employee data is an understandable concern. AnnualLeave is fully protected with the same type of encryption technology that is used by the banks and financial institutions. So, you can operate in full confidence that sensitive reports, data overviews and employee-specific details remain for authorized eyes only.

Application Program Interface, or API, binds together the different features that comprise the AnnualLeave system, allowing them to interact smoothly and effectively. The result is a reliable, efficient and easy-to-use tool capable of handling millions of pieces of data at once. So, whereas employee leave management was once a complex, time-consuming chore, you will now find it one of the easiest tasks of the day.

Mobility is an important aspect of modern working and living. That is why AnnualLeave has been designed using Responsive Technology. Employees can access the system while out of the office or on the go, allowing them to submit leave requests or check on request decisions. HR managers, meanwhile, can check data, read reports or simply post memos. All that’s needed is a mobile device (Smartphone or tablet) with an internet connection.

There can be dozens of individual regulations and conditions to consider, not least factors like minimum required team resources, shift rotations and the impact of unplanned absences. All of these factors can be uploaded to the AnnualLeave system, so all of the data cross-referencing, checking and calculations are done for you. You don’t have to think about them again.

With the system now absorbing all of the relevant conditions and regulations, request assessment can be done automatically. It takes only minutes from viewing the request to approving or rejecting it, leaving you the simple task of noting the decision on the system’s interactive calendar.

Having too many employees on leave at the same time can impede company productivity dramatically. AnnualLeave makes it easy to avoid such situations by updating data in real time. So, the moment approval is granted to one request, its consequences become part of the next request assessment.

Traditionally, leave management procedures are dominated by employee questions and completed official requests, before assessing, deciding on and filing the form. It means paperwork mountains, stuffed in-trays and ever-growing backlogs.

AnnualLeave is a self-service system that not only removes the need for paperwork, but allows staff members to check on their entitlements, submit a request and receive an approval (or rejection) from their own desks. And because the system is mobile friendly, they can even do so when out of the office.