The Leave Dates leave management system seamlessly integrates into your existing HR tech stack to give you the edge you need in administration management.
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Councils have to balance serving the general public with managing staff and working with expansive teams of local councillors. From providing services for residents and planning improvements to overseeing area upkeep and more, councils have a lot on their plates. When you add in managing holiday allocation for your staff and making sure you’re up to date with changing entitlements, admin can get sticky, fast.
We’re sure you’ve had a fair few run-ins with these administrative issues:
Manual leave management systems lead to holidays that aren’t correctly allocated, organised, or taken by your employees.
Changes to staff entitlements because of trade union negotiations impact your holiday scheduling and leave employees unsure of how much holiday they have left.
Budget constraints price you out of the majority of HR tools, letting the full burden fall on your administrators or clerks.
Local contractors don’t have access to government email addresses, making communication, collaboration, and organising holiday schedules a pain.
Repetitive phone calls from staff asking for their current leave allowances or querying leave.
Running a council is never easy. Add leave management issues to the mix, and your staff will be more stressed than ever.
Luckily, Leave Dates has an all-in-one, custom-built solution that solves these issues, streamlines HR management, and brings your administrative burden for leave management to zero.
Manual leave management systems lead to admin errors. If one handwritten request or post-it note with employees' holiday dates goes missing, your whole system is thrown off. With Leave Dates, our all-in-one solution provides an agile system where absolutely everything you need is in one single location. View holiday leave requests, allocate holiday dates, and coordinate with all of your council employees via an integrated calendar system.
With Leave Dates, you can say goodbye to the days of manual leave management.
Your council employees can download the Leave Dates application directly onto their mobile devices to access their personal holiday profiles. They’ll be able to see how much holiday they’ve taken, any remaining days, and any time-off-in-lieu accrued over the course of the year. This streamlines holiday management, as your employees can put leave requests into a centralised system.
With Leave Dates, your employees will always be up-to-date and confident about their holiday allocations.
Leave Dates understands that councils have to balance an immense budget each year, one that often doesn’t leave much for software solutions. That’s why we’ve created a comprehensive leave management solution for an industry-low price tag. With Leave Dates, small councils can get started completely for free, while larger teams can bring on new employee profiles for as little as £0.80 per employee per month.
With Leave Dates, you access a premium holiday management solution for a fraction of the cost of our competitors.
Every council is likely familiar with the mountains of admin, meetings and lengthy processes that they have to wade through to get anything done. With layers of red tape, back-and-forth planning, and different employee schedules and roles, management can quickly become a horror story.
Leave Dates offers a streamlined solution that radically reduces the administrative burden of leave management. With Leave Dates, employees and councils alike can streamline leave management, leveraging our cost-effective system to automate holiday allocation, TOIL calculations, and allowance tracking.
Say goodbye to administrative burdens by making use of the following features:
Managing Time-Off-In-Lieu has never been easier than with Leave Dates. Allocate additional time off, award holiday days, and push global updates to keep all your employees on the same page.
Over the past few years, Leave Dates has had the pleasure of working with several local councils to streamline their LMS systems. We’ve put our experience to use, customising our offerings to make the biggest possible impact with councils.
Say goodbye to legacy systems by rapidly transferring old spreadsheet data to Leave Dates in seconds.
Leave Dates integrates directly into existing HR tech stacks, pairing naturally with tools like Zapier.
Dynamically sync approved holiday dates to employee calendars to keep everyone on the same page about who is working and when.
Utilise our permissions systems to ensure only the people you want to see employee holiday data have access to it.
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Councillors know better than anyone how stressful running a council is for officers. Being volunteers most of the time, giving councillors the gift of organisation can help everyone work as an efficient team.
Leave Dates makes managing staff leave, tracking who has taken certain days off, and ensuring people take necessary breaks a total breeze. With Leave Dates, your council can map out who is on holiday, reducing administrative strain and ensuring councillors can log their leave without the need for permission keep everyone in the know.
Officers and councillors alike can use Leave Dates to track leave, whether it comes from an allowance or not. This can make managing meeting attendance easier and allow councillors to see when staff is available to support them.
Leave Dates has spent years improving its features to provide councils with a comprehensive solution to holiday management. Say goodbye to your legacy system and welcome in a new era of easy leave management.
Here are some central organisational features that make it easy to manage your local council:
Councillors can add leave without approval needed.
Staff and councillors alike can view holiday booked on the integrated calendar.
Manage how many staff are booked off on says where events are planned ot ensure you have a strong team in place.
Staff can rapidly query their own holiday or view when other staff are off.
We’re more than just big talk. We’ve been walking the walk for years and have the accolades to show for it.
Over the past few years, we’ve won “Best Value” and “Best Ease of Use”, showing off just how useful our leave management systems are for councils.
If you’re looking for an intuitive, accessible, and comprehensive LMS system, Leave Dates is for you.
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Leave Dates has revolutionised the way we that we do our HR. Before, everything was tracked with bits of paper and spreadsheets. It wasn't as transparent as I wanted for employees. Leave Dates has brought in transparency for me, department managers and members of staff, collating information into one clean place.
William G. HR Manager
Autonomy and control over one's annual leave.
Great benefits with allowing different team leaders to approve requests. The department feature is excellent and provides autonomy and control over one's annual leave.
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We’re strong believers that a community is only as strong as the council it has supporting it. That’s why we’ve endeavoured to give the best possible leave management services to local councils over the past few years.
Let’s take a look at one of our close partner councils and shed light on the brilliant work they’ve been doing with Leave Dates.
Bracknell Town Council is the largest parish council in Bracknell Forest, responsible for over 250 acres of parks and green spaces and serving over 56,000 residents. To make Bracknell Town the best possible place to live, the council employs 27 councillors and 34 support staff.
Yet, while the staff are a tight-knit community, only five of them work in the office, with most staff members working outside on maintaining the beautiful parks and green spaces of Bracknell Town.
Organising staff across all these different sites made tracking who had taken holiday, leave allocation, and holiday admin a huge burden for the team. Rachel Gordge, Office Manager of Bracknell Town Council, pointed out that there were mountains of admin, both from tracking holiday but also from employees calling in to check on their timesheets and available holiday days.
When Rachel found Leave Dates, she trialled the free plan for up to five users to see how effective it was. After discovering that the ground staff saw Leave Dates as a tool that made their lives easier, she began to roll it out for all of the Bracknell Town Council staff. Everyone was able to download the Leave Dates app onto their phones, making it as easy as possible. The simple and intuitive leave booking system made even the less technologically inclined employees feel at ease.
By logging onto the administrator side of Leave Dates, Rachel is able to see all of the staff requests, allocate holidays, communicate with staff, and streamline the process of leave management. With everything they need in one place, Leave Dates has become a tremendous time-saving system for Bracknell Town Council.
Reflecting on their partnership with Leave Dates, Rachel comments:
“It’s just so clear and simple to use. If we can do it, anyone can use it! It’s made our whole process so much easier and smoother, there’s less room for error. We improved all our processes, giving us time back to do the nice things that were missing over the last couple of years with the pandemic, like organising summer events. We’ve revamped everything so we can move with the way the world now works.”
With Leave Dates, the support system of employees for Bracknell Town can get access to the holiday they need to always give the community their best work.
Leave Dates aims to be an affordable leave management solution, allowing absolutely anyone to get started with our services and scale alongside their council. We’re ready to grow as you do, bringing on new employee accounts and reducing HR admin along the way.
Leave Dates is a high-impact, low-cost solution for all your leave management needs.
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