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Stay compliant with the Working Time Directive

Providing the tools needed to help become globally compliant. So you can manage your workforce, wherever they’re located, in one central system.

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Compliance capabilities you won’t find elsewhere

Country-specific regulations

Adhere to country-specific regulations and practices, such as accrual calculations and precise rounding – thanks to our country templates

Working hours restrictions

Cap maximum weekly working hours, ensure regular breaks, and accurately account for overtime, all to comply with the EU Working Time Directive

Timesheet submission

Employees fill in timesheets via desktop or app and submit them for approval. For those that work the same rota each week, working hours can be automatically filled in for the week or month ahead

Automated reporting

Create and schedule reports to automatically run on working hours, absence, annual leave and much more

Features

Facilitating compliance wherever you’re located

Though the EU Working Time Directive is universal across EU member states, some countries have interpreted and implemented the regulations slightly differently to others. Our country templates can be used to address these differences, and customise the software to work in the best way for your organisation.

Here’s what our customers love:

  • Utilise precise rounding tools for countries that use accruals systems
  • Import public holidays
  • Create user groups for employees located in different countries
  • Custom brand your edays system
  • Use language packs so that employees can use edays in their native language
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edays can be deployed globally, and expand as your organisation grows. Whether you have one or several locations around the world, you can adapt edays to work as you need it to in each country – making absence, leave and time management on a global scale truly possible.

What our customers love:

  • Customisable dashboards give you a snapshot of workforce attendance – including leave, sickness absence and working locations
  • Reporting tools that show you the bigger picture across the organisation, with the ability to drill down to the metrics that matter to you
  • Work with our implementation teams to deploy edays in one location, or several
  • Manage specific events for different locations, such as summer shutdowns or volunteering days
  • Integrate time, absence and leave data with other HR systems and payroll

 

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FEATURES

An objective, reliable and accessible system

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Manage compliance at scale

The EU Working Time Directive calls for the implementation of an objective, reliable and accessible system that enables the duration of time worked each day by each worker to be measured.

Here’s how edays provides such a system:

  • Record working hours via clocking in and out, or by submitting timesheets
  • Cap maximum weekly and monthly working hours to adhere to compliance regulations
  • Automate overtime accrual
  • Integrate with existing HR software
  • Handle country-specific regulations regarding accrual, precise rounding, and more
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Multiple locations in one system

Operating from different locations across Europe or elsewhere in the world? edays provides one platform to govern, track and report on employee time, absence, and leave.

Here’s some of the ways our global customers benefit:

  • Utilise country-specific templates, public holidays and languages
  • Create custom absence types and entitlement pots
  • Book leave in days or hours
  • Automate carryover and accruals to facilitate different rotas
  • Report on leave across users, teams and locations

TESTIMONIALS

Empowering large organisations to stay globally compliant

“edays have a super reactive support team and the application is frequently updated based on customer experience. The initial set-up was pretty smooth thanks to bulk uploads. I’m still a client because the software is reliable, and our business is happy with it so far.”

Julie McIntire

Finance Assistant

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“The feedback from the team has been excellent. The edays employee directory has totally changed how we work. We were totally paper-based before and we can rest assured that employee documentation is secure and easy to find.”

Tarek El-Semman

Director

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“Employees find it very easy to use and our managers find it easy to approve and keep track of absences in their department. It’s also easy to use from an administrator’s point of view. If there are ever any issues or things we don’t understand or have difficulty with, there is great support from the edays team who usually solve queries and issues straight away.”

Lorraine Hanson

Facilities Manager

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Your Working Time Directive questions, answered

edays supports more than 25 languages, including English (UK/US), Français, Español, Nederlands, Deutsch, Italiano, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Thai, Arabic, Serbian and more. Please get in touch to discuss which languages you need.

As well as absence management edays offers a complete workforce management software platform; absence management is the foundation, but the platform extends well beyond it. Alongside absence tracking, Bradford Factor management and return to work workflows, edays includes time and attendance management (clocking in and out, online timesheets, project time tracking and EU Working Time Directive compliance), workforce scheduling (drag-and-drop rota management, skills-based shift assignment and fatigue management rules), leave management, core HR tools (employee directory, document management and workflow automation), a mobile app and People Insights analytics. Everything connects in one platform so absence, leave and time data are always in sync, and payroll always receives accurate, reconciled figures without manual intervention.

We focus on providing the best absence management, leave management and time and attendance solutions for your organisation. We’ll listen to your requirements and offer a best-in-class solution with more functionality compared to any other HR system providers. Our system is packed with features you won’t find anywhere else – helping you to manage absence, leave and time in more detailed, customisable ways that suit your organisation.

Yes. edays is built from the ground up to be globally capable for organisations that operate in different territories and countries. Our country templates and language packs mean that you can tailor your edays system to work in specific ways in different locations. Learn more about our global capability here.

Yes. All annual public holidays for specific countries can be imported in to the edays system, as well as any additional company grace days, volunteering days or other events. These can be applied to specific locations, departments or user groups within the system.

We have a number of integration options. We have some out-of-the-box solutions with our partners, or you can use an SFTP or our API for more bespoke options. An SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) is an easy way to feed data from one system to another, while our API unlocks plenty of options for how two systems talk to each other.

Yes, the edays time tracking module can integrate with clocking devices. The API endpoints have been created to work with physical hardware, so that you can still use these for access and entry, while feeding the data into edays. We can either connect with your existing hardware, or you can purchase the hardware through one of our partners.

Yes, edays has an API that can be used to connect with many of your other platforms or software solutions. This makes the edays solution even more flexible and helps it to work more seamlessly in your tech stack.

Yes! iCal feeds allow you to sync edays calendars with any web-based calendars such as Outlook, Gmail, and more. This means that when leave is approved in edays, it will automatically pull through to your calendar to help your employees better manage their time.

Yes. The unique flexibility of our system means we’ve helped complement and improve existing systems for our customers, including ERP systems, Payroll, and core HR systems. Learn more about our integrations here.

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