Solid staff holiday planning and management systems are a must for any company

Having a very robust system for managing staff holiday in place is mission-critical for most companies – and the recent debacle one of the world’s best-known low-cost airlines, Ryanair, has found itself in proves this only too well.

Reports that Ryanair will cancel between 40 and 50 flights every day for the next six weeks because it “messed up” the planning of pilots’ holiday is a situation that could have been avoided with better holiday planning.

Discussing the holiday planning chaos Ryanair’s Marketing officer Kenny Jacobs said, “We have messed up in the planning of pilot holidays and we’re working hard to fix that,”
He added that most of the cancellations are due to a backlog of staff leave which has seen large numbers of the airline’s staff book holidays towards the end of the year.

The airline is changing its holiday year, which currently runs from April to March, to run from January to December instead. Ryanair said the shift meant it had to allocate annual leave to pilots in September and October.

Time & Attendance UK – expert suppliers of time and attendance systems with solid, advanced holiday planning functionality

If you are considering the implementation of an advanced integrated workforce management system that will enable your company to deliver enhanced holiday management options for your staff, Time & Attendance UK has the expertise and know-how to help.

Our specific position within this market segment, as well as proven experience in the field enables us to thoroughly customize our systems in order to meet all of your requirements.

The Smart Card Time & Attendance recording workstation incorporates such features as job booking, job costing, labour hours analysis and security management. A self-service module (SSM) will enable staff to easily book their holidays, while managers will be able to view all booked holidays for their respective departments and approve (or deny) new requests, as necessary.

If you want to find out more about the range of affordable, reliable solutions provided by Time & Attendance UK, just contact our dedicated product team, they’ll be more than happy to answer any question you might have.