Leave Management Software

Leave management software tends to be bought after something went wrong, and the thing that went wrong is rarely a day to day approval.

A spreadsheet copes with ordinary weeks. It breaks at termination, when accrued annual leave has to be paid out and the number has to be defensible. Years of manual adjustments, a change in hours, a period of unpaid leave and a payroll system that was reconciled inconsistently all land in one figure on one day.

The second failure point is a change in employment status. Moving between full time and part time changes accrual, and a spreadsheet will not recalculate history for you.

Both are the moments at which an error stops being an inconvenience and becomes an underpayment you have to correct and explain.

The Fair Work Ombudsman explains final pay and accrued leave. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s HR management system and employee management system.