Below is a glossary of terms related to Time Off Tracking in Sapling:
- Accrual: set amount of time off (in hours) that you gain over a period of time
- Available hours: table for all users that describes the total amount of available time off hours ( categorized by policy).
- Carryover Cap: The maximum amount of hours that someone can rollover from year to year.
- Team Member's Classification Filters: your company’s categorization of team members (usually split by Location, Department, Employment status, etc..). Your Sapling admin may set up a time off policy based on classification.
- Negative Balance: Allowing a negative time off balance means team members can request time off before they have accrued it. Usually, team members can pay back negative balances in one of two ways: deductions from a paycheck, or continued employment.
- Partial Day Request: a time off request made when a team member wants to request either: A few hours at the beginning, middle or end of a day (For example, taking lunch off for a dentist appointment) or A request spread over multiple days, where the start or end date is in the middle of normal working hours (for example, leaving at 3 pm for a one week vacation to head to the airport)
- Policy Accrual Cap: the maximum amount of time off that team members can accrue. Once the accrual amount dips beneath the cap, team member will begin accruing time off again.
- Tenure Milestones: Events that increase team member accrual rates and award additional days per year based on length of employment.