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1. I can't see a screen shot for this on the attached document. If an absence has no actual end date, when it is being brought through to the payroll it is assumed to end at the period end date. Could that be the case here?

2. This is becuase the Working Days Lost and Calendar days calculation show you the number of days up until "now" if an absence has no end date. That is, if the employee is still off sick it shows you the number of days lost so far. Assuming you took those screenshots on the 10th July then I'd expect to see 37 calendar days lost and 27 working days lost, as the days after the 10th on the day-by-day display will not be counted. Once you get an update to your test system it will be possible for you to assign a default colour to each absence reason, and then on the day-by-day display on that screen the calendar days of the absence will have a background colour the same as set up on the absence reason. That would have showed you straight away that the calculations were only running up to 10/07/07.

3. This is a bug which I will address.

4. Before making a change like this we would have to assess the impact on our other clients that are using the absence model. The theory was that when entering an absence the operator would first select the "Absence Reason" to define the broad category of the absence, and then select the "Absence Detailed Reason" the selection of which would be made simpler by narrowing down the options available.

5. This was just done for completeness, so that when entering a Doctor's Note details the operator was forced to enter all the information the doctor supplied. If you wish we can remove this requirement?

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Jul 25, 15:07:26