Holiday & Vacation Pay Revisited
At this time of year, with the holidays and some vacation time likely, it makes sense to revisit a few previous articles. Each article includes step-by-step instructions on how to use Procare Software® to easily record holiday and vacation hours for employees at your child care, daycare or preschool. Continue reading
Solve the Vacation Hours Puzzle
Puzzled about how to keep track of staff vacation hours at your child care, daycare or preschool? You’ll quickly realize there are a number of things you need to know. In fact you may have read our previous articles on tracking Paid Holidays, Earned Vacation and Planned Vacation Hours. The missing piece to the puzzle is recording when the vacation is actually taken and those hours have been used.
Let’s say one or more employees are on vacation, or perhaps they have recently returned. You’ll want to be sure the vacation time is accurately recorded on their time cards so it will be included on reports for payroll purposes. Typically you’d do this at the end of each pay period to catch any hours that may have been used during the period. If nobody was on vacation, that’s okay since there would not be any hours to process. In fact it’s really not limited to vacation. This concept would work for any appointment, personal time off, etc. that was previously planned.
In this article we’ll look at how Procare Software® may be used to track vacation hours used and to quickly review the number of hours still available for an employee. Continue reading
Schedule Vacation for Your Daycare Staff
Everyone needs a little vacation from time to time, especially those dedicated teachers, aides and other staff members at your daycare or early childhood learning center. Having some time off is good news for them, but what about scheduling those vacation hours? How will you keep track of who is taking vacation when? Especially during the summer months it can be a lot to trust to your memory alone.
Although you could mark off days on a big wall calendar in the office or staff break room you’ll probably find there is more information you’ll need. An easier way is to use a Child Care Software Program to keep track of hours earned, scheduled, taken and remaining for all types of benefits including vacation, sick and training time.
In previous articles we explored how to record Paid Holidays and keep track of Earned Vacation hours. In this article we’ll see how Procare Software® may be used to schedule vacation time (and other planned absences, like appointments and personal time) so you’ll know exactly who is on vacation and for how long. Continue reading
Earning Vacation Hours at Your Daycare
Thinking about your next vacation? Although your trip may not involve Hawaiian print shirts and colorful inner tubes it’s still fun to have something to look forward to. The not so fun part is figuring out how to keep track of vacation time earned and used for employees at your child care, daycare or preschool.
You can use a Vacation Accumulation Formula to determine the number of hours a person would earn for each pay period or forty hour work week, but you’ll still need a method to track those hours and answer questions like “How many vacation hours do I have left?”
If you offer vacation hours as a benefit at your child care business you’ll want to use Child Care Management Software to fully track all benefit hours including vacation, sick time, training, etc.
In this article we’ll look at how Procare Software® helps you easily track vacation time earned. Then in other articles you’ll see how to Plan Vacation Hours ahead of time and record Vacation Hours Used once the vacation has been taken. You’ll even be able to answer the “how many hours do I have left?” question. Continue reading
Vacation Hours, Vacation Credits & Billing Reminders
Many child care centers, daycare facilities and preschool programs allow families to take a specified number of vacation days each year. For example, a family may be given a credit for up to one week of vacation. If they exceed that time they would then be charged the standard weekly rate to hold their child’s spot.
Tracking vacation hours, tuition fees and vacation credits are tasks simplified by using Daycare Software. In this article we’ll show you how to use Procare Software® to manage vacation hours, post vacation credits, and use the built-in calendar reminder to help remember when to issue a credit. You may even choose how many vacation hours will be counted for each day. Let’s say the child was enrolled in a 4 hour a day program, but for vacation purposes your policy is to count that as a full 8 hour day. Continue reading