Transfer absence days
Transfer days from one absence period to another
Table of Contents
- How to make a transfer
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Rolling Time Period vs. Calendar Year for Self-Certified Sick Days
- Not able to transfer days for employee
How to make a transfer
Vacation days are not transferred automatically; this process must be completed manually.
To transfer absence days for your employee you need to
- Navigate to the "People module"
- Choose the current employee and click "Absence"
- Navigate to the "three dots" to the right of the absence type
- Click on "Transfer Days"
- Choose which period you want to transfer to and how many days that should be transferred. Add a note if you like, this will be visible to the employee.
- Click "Save"
- When an employee is enrolled in a policy that uses a "Calendar Year" time period, their balance will reset at the beginning of each new year.
Watch these videos to learn how to make a transfer and to verify that your settings are correctly configured.
Allow days to be transferred
All Vacation policies have absence transfer activated by default.
To access these settings:
- Go to the "Absence module"
- Click on "Settings" and one absence type
- Navigate to the "three dots" to the right of the policies and click "Edit"
- Activate "Allow days to be transferred"
- Click "Save"
Rolling Time Period vs. Calendar Year for Self-Certified Sick Days
- If you are sick on June 1st and 2nd, 2023, you will get these days renewed on June 1st and 2nd, 2024, if you have chosen the rolling 12-month period.
- With a fixed time period, you will receive 12 new days based on the set start date of the calendar year.
Not able to transfer days for employee
- If you want to transfer absence days, the employee must be enrolled in a policy that permits the transfer of days and has a defined limit on the number of vacation days available (for example, 25 days).
- The employee must have participated in the policy for its entire duration.
- Fx. if you want to transfer days from 2025 to 2026, the employee must have been a part of the policy from 01.01.2025.
- Read about changing policy period here.
- See video here.