Roster around people's lives, not over them.

Staff request leave from the Profile tab in the app: the kind, the first and last day and a note. Their manager gets a push and an email and approves or declines it on the person's staff record, where they can also add leave directly. The person is told either way.

When leave is added or approved, the manager sees how many of the person's existing shifts fall inside it, so they can be covered straight away. The dashboard lists those shifts under Needs attention.

Approved leave is a hard rule. The shift form marks the person as on leave and refuses to save them on those days. Their row on the roster shows the days as leave, with no Add button. Publishing skips drafts that clash, copies and repeating shifts skip those days, and the person is left out of suggested staff.

The dashboard lists who is on leave today and when they're back, and who is free and usually available.

Staff set the days and hours they usually work, any time or per weekday, including overnight windows like 22:00 to 06:00, and managers can set it on the staff record. Availability is advisory: the shift form and the suggestions warn when a shift falls outside it, but you can still book someone who has agreed to cover.

Set how many hours of annual and sick leave are earned for each ordinary hour, such as 1/13 (0.0769) for four weeks a year, and how long a day of leave is. When a month's payroll is finalised, each person's ordinary hours that month add to their balances, counted as the National Employment Standards do: for hourly staff, approved hours except overtime, plus paid leave; for salaried staff, their ordinary week (a full-time week unless their record says otherwise), less any unpaid leave. Turn accrual off for casual staff.

Approved annual and sick leave comes off the balance, worked out from the days less public holidays and the days the person's usual availability marks as off (with no availability set, every day counts), or the hours you give. Admins can adjust a balance with a reason, such as an opening balance, and every movement is kept. Staff see their balances in the app before they ask.

TDS Workforce Management tracks balances and keeps the roster honest about leave, but paying leave, leave loading and payouts stay with your payroll system.