Book an absence - (holiday, WFH, TOIL, compassionate) - non-standard work pattern

This section is for employees who work a non-standard work pattern (Monday - Friday, fixed-hour arrangement). For creating an absence When an employee or worker is absent from work. This can be for a variety of reasons. on a standard work pattern, refer to Book an Absence - Standard Work Pattern.

• You cannot select the Half Day Start or Half Day End checkboxes when using a non-standard work pattern.

• The steps in this section are based on creating a holiday absence, but you can follow the same steps for any absence.

1. Log into Staffology HR.

2. From Home, select Request Leave.

   

3. Enter start and end dates for your holiday in Date From and Date To.

4. In the Work Pattern (Hours)/(Days) calendar, enter the number of hours/days of leave you want to take.

   The calendar highlights the days you can request an absence for:

   Work Pattern (Hours)

   

   • When adding an absence in hours, you can add increments of 0.5 to 8.

   Work Pattern (Days)

   

   • You can only request up to 7 days at a time. To add more than 7 days, create another absence request or ask your admin to edit the absence duration.

   • When adding an absence in days, you can add increments of 0, 0.5 or 1.

   4. On the Request screen, complete the remaining fields for this absence using this table as a guide:

      Field	Description
      Absence Type (Mandatory)	Select the absence type (for example, Holiday) from the dropdown.
      Absence Reason (Mandatory)	Select the absence reason (for example, Authorised Leave) from the dropdown.
      Comments (optional)	Enter additional information about the holiday request.
      Include Saturday (optional)	Select this if you usually work on Saturdays and the holiday includes a Saturday.
      Include Sunday (optional)	Select this if you usually work on Sundays and the holiday includes a Sunday.
      Approver	The name of the person who needs to approve the request (usually your line manager) displays.
      Send To	The email address of the person who needs to approve the holiday request (usually your line manager) displays.

   5. Select Send to send your request to your approver.

      A confirmation message displays.

   6. The request shows on your Home page and on Absence as Pending.

      

   7. If your request is approved or declined, you receive an email notification.