Managing employee leave can be stressful. This document provides 10 tips to better manage employee leave such as being clear on leave policies, setting a notice period for leave applications, automating leave data into payroll software, simplifying the leave application process, providing tools to view staff availability and leave balances, and handling leave requests with empathy to avoid morale issues.

1. 10 ways to
better manage
Employee Leave

2. Managing employee leave
can be
STRESSFUL
But here are some simple tips
that could help.

3. Be clear on both employer and employee rights.
1. Keep up to date with legislation
Ensure uniform treatment across the board.
2. Outline clear leave policies

4. Employees should give proper notice when applying
for vacation time.
3. Set a clear leave notice period
This will help you keep up to date and informed.
4. Network within the HR community

5. Automate the process of importing leave data into
your payroll. Software solutions can help relieve much
of this work.
5. Automate leave import into your payroll

6. Some software solutions offer an employee portal that
allows staff to apply for leave online and enables
managers to approve or reject this accordingly.
6. Simplify your leave application process

7. Provide tools for management to see their resources
available at any one given moment, so that they can
approve or reject leave based on resource availability.
7. View staff resources available

8. Staff should also be able to view resources on any
given day and will be more reluctant to apply for leave
on a day when several of their colleagues are already
absent.
8. Provide staff with a leave planner

9. Ensure managers/HR have access to updated and
correct employee leave balances so that they may
quickly determine whether an employee is eligible to
pay while on the requested leave.
9. Access to updated leave balances

10. Encourage management to be empathetic towards
employees who are requesting leave due to difficult
personal issues. If handled wrongly, this can cause
workplace morale problems both for the employee in
question and those around them.
10. Empathy towards employees

11. For more on leave management visit
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