If your people don't work the regular 5 days a week, 8 hours a day then you need to give them a working pattern that reflects what they could be working. We appreciate that there are some situations which making creating working patterns tricky, so we have broken those scenarios down for you and set out the best way for you to manage these employees.

Select the link below that best suits your scenario.

Example: A person has a working pattern that looks like this:
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Mon          Tues         Wed         Thur         Fri
   11               6               5              0            0
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Suitable Working Pattern 

Create and assign a working pattern that shows the daily hours against the days that are worked:

Suitable Holiday Allowance

Calculate the holiday allowance in HOURS based on his working hours in relation to a full working week.

Here is the link to our handy online holiday calculator to help you do this for your employees:

Create and assign an hourly allowance:

Example: A person has a working pattern that looks like this:
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                Mon         Tues          Wed         Thur         Fri        Sat         Sun

Week 1     6                6               6              6           Off          6          Off
Week 2    Off            Off             6              6            6            6           6

Suitable Working Pattern

Create and assign the person a working pattern that shows their daily hours over all the possible working days of a week:

Suitable Holiday Allowance

Calculate the holiday allowance in DAYS based on her working hours in relation to a full working week.

Here is the link to our handy online holiday calculator to help you do this for your employees:

Create and assign a daily allowance:

We would recommend that you tick 'ignore working pattern' box on the employee profile in this particular case.

In the box, record the average hours worked a week over the 2 week rolling period:

By ticking 'ignore working pattern' you instruct the system to ignore the working pattern and allow the user to specify the amount of days that the leave will include in the leave period that has been booked.
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When it comes to managing the holiday allowance aspect of employees who work part hours, the easiest option is to give them a daily allowance. However, this will only be appropriate if they were to be working the same hours each day. 

If the employee works differing hours in a day, then an hourly allowance would be more appropriate. In this case, we would recommend that 'ignore working pattern' is ticked on the employee profile. This will mean that the system will not look to the working pattern when deducting leave from the allowance.