IRIS PROJECTminder now includes new Absence Reporting features

Working Time (Amendement) Regulations 2007 requires that all employees who work five days a week must be given at least 28 days holiday, inclusive of bank and public holidays. The regulations include a formula that applies so that each employee is given these rights on a pro-rata basis, which means that holiday entitlements must now be calculated in hours to ensure that part-time staff or staff who do not work the standard company hours receive the correct holiday entitlement.

IRIS PROJECTminder calculates a user's holiday entitlement depending on the number of core hours that a staff member works each day. If a staff member works a different number of hours to their 'regional absence standard day' they now need to have their entitlement calculated in hours so that they receive a fair entitlement. The new functionality also allows tracking of additional absence requests on top of holidays so it is now even easier to keep an audit of staff absence requests and resource availability.

Christopher Gibbon, General Manager of architects Pollard Thomas Edwards, said: "The new regulations are something that every employer has to comply with, so it makes sense to leave it to PROJECTminder to do it efficiently and effectively. Without PROJECTminder, you're back to a calculator and a diary - and to pen-and-paper records for every member of staff."