Gradience FMLA Tracker

How Gradience FMLA Tracker Calculates Time

When using a FREE 30-day demo. Functionality will not go more than 30 days after you first began using the Demo. This is why you are seeing only 30 days of FMLA leave. As a test, we suggest that you begin your FMLA date range early enough [prior] to the date you began using the software to get the entire 12 weeks.

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Under normal circumstances, employees who have:

• Been on the payroll for at least 12 months,
• Worked at least 1,250 hours in 12 months [prior to leave]
• Worked at a location where at least 50 employees are employed by the business within 75 miles…

…are eligible for 12 weeks of FMLA leave.

The software does not award FMLA based on a computation of 12 weeks. Rather it calculates FMLA leave by 60 days. Moreover, the number of hours of FMLA leave is based on the assumption that the employee taking FMLA leave works an 8 hour day.

We understand that not all employees work an 8 hour day. So, the software will recognize each letter F when it is applied to a particular date on the calendar to be [ worth ] the number of hours that this particular employee works in a day based on what you entered for this employee in the Day Hours field on the Employee Detail screen. Additionally, after applying the letter F to a date, you may right-click that date and select Absence Detail and adjust the [ hour value ] of the code up or down as you see fit.

Although not always the case, typically when you grant an employee FMLA Leave, you enter a date range. If you were to enter a date range that gives the employee 40 days [ clearly not the entire 60 days permitted ] the software will apply the letter F on 40 dates. Each letter F will be [ worth ] the number of hours that this particular employee works in a day. So, if you had entered 7 in Day Hours field on the Employee Detail screen for this employee, the total number of hours of FMLA granted ( used ) will be 40 x 7 = 280.

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Although each day of FMLA Leave is worth the number of hours a day this particular employee works in a day, the software was written for the majority of organizations whose employees work a standard 8 hour day. Therefore, in our example above, even though [ each ] day of FMLA Leave is worth 7 hours, the software will allow the employee to amass a total of 480 hours of FMLA leave because when you multiply the standard 8 hour day times 60, the total is 480.

As the administrator, you therefore must take responsibility for ensuring that the employee does not take more FMLA than what is truly authorized based on the number of hours a day that the employee actually works.

This is not a bug. The software was intentionally written to function this way because most employees work an 8 hour day. We may update the software in such a way as to ensure that the [ total number of hours permitted ] will be limited to 60 X (whatever the Day Hours are) but I cannot say when or whether this kind of an enhancement will be implemented. I apologize for the inconvenience.