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Managing compassionate leave and pay
Managing compassionate leave and pay
Rebecca Russell avatar
Written by Rebecca Russell
Updated over a year ago

As an employer, you might like to offer paid or unpaid compassionate leave to your employees when they're faced with an emergency and need additional time off from work.

You'll first need to enable this in your account before you can add the leave to the employee's record.

Enable compassionate leave and pay

To enable compassionate leave on your PayFit account:

  1. From the left, choose Company settings, then Payroll set-up.

  2. Under the Leaves section, click Edit compassionate leave settings.

  3. Select Yes to offer compassionate leave to your employees.

  4. Choose whether the compassionate leave will be Paid or Unpaid.

  5. If you'd like to limit how much compassionate leave can be logged, select Yes on the third option, then enter the number of days.

  6. Click Save.

Add compassionate leave for an employee

To add compassionate leave for an employee

  1. From the employee's record, click the Leaves tab.

  2. Under the Other leaves section, click Add other leave.

  3. From the Type of leave drop-down, select Compassionate leave.

  4. If applicable, you can enter a reason for the leave.

  5. To change whether the leave is paid or unpaid for this employee, toggle on the Edit parameters button, then choose whether the leave is paid or unpaid and the maximum length of leave for this employee.

  6. Select the leave dates.

  7. If necessary, use the Upload document here button to upload any supporting documents.

  8. Click Save.

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