Leave/Time Off
WFM comes with 3 leave types built in by default. These are Annual Leave, Sick Leave and Unpaid Leave. The names of these are not editable.
If you need to add in more leave types you can, simply head to Setup > Leave/Time Off at the top to and there will be a button for a new leave type.
When editing a leave type you can change:
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The name of the leave type
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The deafult number of hours per day for the leave type
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The multiplier or loading for the leave type
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If leave is costed on weekends
If you are using a supported payroll system, you will also be able to link a payroll ID for the leave type as well.
Adding leave when scheduling or doing the actuals
When you are deleting or denying a shift you have the option of creating leave. This will create a part day object with the amount of hours as shown in the dialog.
Costing of leave on the Schedule
Leave is costed on the schedule by taking the employee's base hourly rate, and multiplying it by the number of hours and the multiplier
If the employee has taken 20 hours of leave over 5 days it will be costed at 4 hours per day, unless one of the days is a weekend and the leave is set to not include weekends, it will do 5 hours for the 4 week days and 0 hours for the weekend day.
Does leave appear in my hours, wage and KPI totals?
Leave costs are included in wage totals for each day & week. The cost will affect your labor cost percentage, as leave costs still need to be paid out.
The hours totals will only include productive hours. This means leave hours are not included in the daily and weekly hour totals, as they are not productive (as the employee is not working). This means your other KPI's (like productivity and sales per labor hour) will also calculate correctly (based on the hours employees are working)