Time Off In Lieu, otherwise known as TOIL, is an arrangement where an employer compensates employees who work more than their contracted hours by offering them time off rather than paying overtime. Employees agree to the terms of TOIL with their employer, for instance, by agreeing to take TOIL only during slack periods. Here we…
In today’s post-pandemic world, time is incredibly underrated. It seems as though most business owners are far too busy making up for the time they lost during the pandemic and extended lockdowns that they have forgotten to take time for themselves and their employees. While this isn’t entirely their fault, it is still an industry…
LeaveWizard is great for tracking holidays and absences – but it can also track working from home, offsite working, and other events. Changing ways of working One effect of the global coronavirus pandemic has been to force the closure of offices and workspaces in many countries. For many firms, this resulted in a rapid shift…
In recent months we’ve seen a huge increase in the popularity of tools that help distributed teams work together. The team behind LeaveWizard has always been distributed and we make use of various tools one of which is Slack. For a while now we have been using a LeaveWizard/Slack integration and since we are now…
It is possible to carry over leave for an employee who has not taken it, but what are the rules, and how do you do it? There are many good reasons, as we’ve talked about on this blog before, for encouraging staff to use up their holiday entitlement before the end of their annual leave…
