Structured leave, statutory sick pay for statutory-only organisations, and automatic holiday accrual — plus any ad-hoc leave type your policies actually use. Birthday leave, charity days, bereavement, whatever a manager needs to grant on the spot.
Most rota software ships with three or four fixed leave types and calls it done. Real handbooks aren't that tidy — there's the bereavement policy nobody wrote down properly, the birthday day off, the one-off compassionate leave a manager approved on the spot. Rigid systems force all of that into "unpaid / other," which loses the record and the intent.
Two Kinds of Leave, One System
Annual leave, sick leave, statutory leave — the types every employment contract already references, with holiday accrual tracked automatically underneath. This is the baseline every leave system handles.
Every operator we've spoken to has leave types that live in policy but never made it into software: bereavement leave with its own rules, a birthday day off, charity volunteering days, one-off compassionate leave a manager grants without a formal policy behind it. In FlexiWork, any of these is a real leave type — with its own rules and pay rate — not a workaround typed into a notes field.
For organisations paying SSP only, FlexiWork calculates it automatically. If your contracts pay enhanced or contractual sick pay above the statutory minimum, that's tracked as its own configured leave type instead — the distinction matters, because a statutory calculation and a contractual rate you set yourself are not the same thing, and conflating them is exactly how sick pay gets paid incorrectly.
Built In, Not Bolted On
The contract-and-handbook basics, set up once, with automatic holiday accrual running underneath every worker, including irregular and zero-hours staff.
Birthday leave, charity days, bereavement, one-off compassionate leave — defined with your own rules and pay rate, not limited to a preset list.
Calculated automatically where your organisation pays statutory sick pay only. Enhanced contractual sick pay is tracked as its own configured leave type.
How It Works
Annual, sick and statutory leave, configured to your policy — holiday accrual runs automatically from there.
Birthday leave, charity days, bereavement — each with its own rules and pay rate, available the moment you need it.
Approved leave feeds straight into the wage report for that period — nothing to re-enter when payroll runs.
Most rota software ships with three or four fixed leave types. FlexiWork lets you define as many as your policies actually use — included, not an add-on.
FAQ
Start free for 14 days. Set up your standard leave types, then add whatever your policies actually use.
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