Personnel absence management and monitoring system
AssigneeAbsentys, LLC
InventorsGary Harbison, Dana Jackson, Leah Cooper
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Abstract
The invention provides a system for recording and reporting employee absences. It tracks and administers information needed to comply with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), state and employer authorized leave along with employee attendance policies and vacation plans within the employer's system. In a preferred embodiment, the system is deployed through the Internet and interacts with Short Term Disability and Workers' Compensation vendors and tracks which employee absences should be classified as such. With all absence data integrated into one system, the invention easily creates reports that have been difficult, if not impossible, to compile previously.
Claims16
An apparatus for managing information related to absence of an employee from a workplace, the apparatus comprising:
- an employee database for maintaining employee identification information and information related to absence of the employee;
- a client computer comprising an input device for entering input information related to the absence of the employee and a display device for displaying information related to the absence of the employee;
- a server computer in communication with the client computer and the employee database, the server computer for receiving the input information, accessing the employee database and executing one or more software modules for operating on the information related to the absence of the employee;
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- a communication network through which the client computer communicates with the server computer.
An apparatus for managing information related to employee leave, the apparatus comprising:
- an employee database for maintaining employee information related to absences of the employee from the workplace;
- a client computer connected to a communication network, the client computer for entering input information related to requested employee leave;
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- a server computer connected to the communication network and in communication with the employee database, the server computer for receiving the input information, accessing employee information from the employee database and executing one or more software modules for operating on the input information and the employee information to determine whether the requested employee leave is to be granted based at least in part on government-enacted employee leave laws and employer leave policies.
An apparatus for managing information related to requests for employee leave, the apparatus comprising:
- means for maintaining employee identification information and employee leave information;
- means for receiving a request for approval of the employee leave, where the request includes a reason for the requested leave;
- means for determining eligibility of the employee for the requested leave based at least in part on the employee identification information, the employee leave information and the reason for the requested leave;
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- means for automatically generating documentation for notifying the employee regarding whether the employee is eligible for the requested leave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.