How Absence Management Components Work Together for the US

Here's how the absence management components work together to create a cohesive absence management policy for your organization.

You can set up absence management for your enterprise using these components: absence categories, absence types, absence patterns, absence reasons, absence plans, and action items.

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Absence Plans

Use the Absence Plans task to create absence plans.

Absence Types

Use the Absence Types task to define them.

Absence Patterns

Associate a predefined pattern with your absence type.

Absence Categories

Use the Absence Categories task to create absence categories and associate them with absence types.

Absence Reasons

Use the Absence Reasons task to create absence reasons.

Absence Certifications

Use the Certifications task to set up a requirement. Associate the requirement as an action item with an absence type, so that every absence associated with the absence type is subject to that requirement.