Setting up policies

Policies are collections of accruals that are assigned to employees. They determine the balances, such as sick or vacation days, that are controlled by the application. For example, if the Standard policy contains three accruals (Sick, Vacation, and Personal Days) and is linked to one employee (Robert Skinner), then Robert Skinner's Sick, Vacation, and Personal Day balances are affected by the policy.

Employees without policies that are assigned to them can still use balances, but they do not earn more. System administrators must manually increase their balances when they earn more.

If more than one accrual policy is assigned to an employee within the same time period, the application gives preference based on the policy's priority value. A policy with priority 1 is processed before a policy with priority 2.