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Currently it seems the LOS rule (awarding additional holiday days on fixed LOS milestones) only come into affect at the start of the next holiday year. This negatively impacts those who are employed in the first and second quarter of a year rather than those from July onwards. I.e. they have to wait longer in order to utilise their LOS benefit.
| Describe the Challenge | If you could choose to allow this to be awarded on their milestone date it would ensure all employees are benefiting equally. |
We were told when looking into the system that this is something People HR could do as it was a frustration of ours with the old system we were using and wanted to eliminate these type of manual updates. To then discover the system doesn't actually do this and only comes into affect at the start of the next holiday year is very disappointing to us. It is good that we can create a rule, but pointless if we cannot then decide how to implement the rule. Please allow an option for any additional holidays to be added on the anniversary date rather than the start of the next holiday year.
This idea/request was originally posted in September 2024 and I have seen multiple ideas that are the same if not very similar to this. Can we please get an update?
Having the LOS rule applied at the beginning of the year means that the extra day's leave is added potentially at 4 years and 1 month of service, rather than at 5 years. It is unclear if this extra day is then taken out of the system's auto-calculation for leavers when calculating remaining entitlement, should their leave date fall before their service anniversary. The current set up leaves us having to manually add the entitlement for each staff member individually as they reach their service anniversary. I agree, having the option for "at start of holiday year" or for "from continuous start date" would be much more beneficial.
Having the LOS
We have an LOS that after 5, 10, 15, 20 & 30 years service employees receive 1 extra day holiday at the start of their anniversary year not upon their anniversary date. It would be good if this option is available
We have changes entitlement changes after 1, 3, 5, and 10 years which is effective on the anniversary of someone's start date. Without this function, our team currently has to manually calculate and update each member of staff's holiday entitlement. Choosing an effective date throughout a year woudl be so helpful and save so much time.
I agree, it would be good if the system allows for the LOS to be added from the when the employee is eligible and there after, for equity purposes it makes sense. Our policy is that after 2 years of service an employee is awarded 1 day to a max of 5 days after each year, this is only effective at the start of each calendar year which is not fair for staff who start mid year, which makes the process manual for HR and subject to mistakes.
We have a rule that after 2 years of service, an extra days holiday is provided, this occurs every 2 years until a max amount is reached. We require this to be added on the employees work anniversary date. However the system does not allow for this to happen. So I have to input this information manually! the LOS rule doesn't assist with this either as it only applies the following year, not on the actual anniversary date. It would be great if this could be amended to suit.