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Store documents, track expiry dates and prevent employees being rostered for roles they are not qualified for

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The Qualifications feature is used for storing and tracking training, qualifications or certificates.

This help guide covers:

How to create a qualification

To create a qualification, navigate to Workforce > Qualifications and click + New Qualification. You only need to give the qualification a name - the other fields are optional, and the purpose of each is explained below.

Qualification optional fields:

  • Maximum hours per week is used to warn managers on the roster and during shifts when employees are over their qualification restricted hours. This is used mostly to monitor maximum visa working hours.

  • Customise expiry notification frequency allows managers to set multiple customised notification frequencies per Qualification to provide ample warning regarding the expiry.

  • Should be blocking:* when the Qualification is expired, pending approval, or maximum hours are breached on a roster when the qualification is effective, roster publishing will be blocked, shifts will be unclaimable etc..

  • Automatically add and remove Staff with this qualification to Teams that require it makes an employee holding this qualification a member of any team that has this qualification as required, and removes them when the qualification is removed

*When "should be blocking" is enabled on a qualification that is assigned to one or more teams, the blocking validation on rosters will only apply to staff whose shifts are rostered in teams with the assigned qualification.

Effective dates

When ‘Should be blocking’ is selected, an additional option of ‘Should block publishing outside of effective dates ranges’ appears. If checked, this option will block roster publishing, claiming of shifts etc. when the shift is outside the qualifications effective dates.

See below an example of the effective dates on an employees qualification. If this employee was rostered to work hours more than the qualification set out hours in August and the Should block publishing outside of effective dates ranges is enabled, the roster will show an error and block the employees shifts from being published.

Note: if you don't see the Qualification option in your Workforce menu, ensure the qualifications feature is turned on. Admins can turn on the qualification feature by navigating to Settings > Feature Management > Qualifications.


Assigning Qualifications to Staff

To assign a qualification to an employee, navigate to the qualifications tab on their employee profile and set the qualification status to current.

The remaining fields are optional. You can include a reference number if the qualification has a unique identifier, an expiry date or date range, and upload a copy.


The expiry date is the date when the qualification no longer is in effect for the employee. If there are specific periods when the qualification should be active on the employees profile, such as during term time for students and not during holiday periods, this is where the effective dates are to be used.

In term periods (the qualification is active) are entered as the effective dates, and the qualification will not apply in time between these dates.

Qualification expiry notifications

Employees are always notified of impending and expired qualifications, but you can select which management roles you wish to be notified.

To customise manager notifications, navigate to Settings > Permissions > Manager Permissions > Receive qualification expiry and update alerts

Expired qualifications will always flag to managers on the dashboard and on the staff list.

Dashboard:

Staff list:

Notifications by email are triggered by the below events:

  • 1 month prior to a qualification expiring, a warning email is sent (default)

  • On the expiry date itself (default)

  • On the months/week as set when customising notification frequency

  • Whenever an employee updates their own qualification details


Allow staff to update or add their own qualifications

To allow staff to edit or update their qualifications, navigate to Settings > All Settings > Permissions > Employee Permissions and tick the Allow staff to update qualifications option:

All updates made by an employee require manager approval before updating in their profile. Managers will be alerted via email when a qualification is pending approval.

Learn more about this Employee Self Service, including how to update or add a qualification through the app, inthis help guide.


Setting up maximum working hours alerts

An alert will be sent through your mobile app if staff are at risk of exceeding the maximum hours work. This will happen on each staff clock out, if their past clocked hours plus their future rostered hours are more than the maximum hours you will receive an alert.

To enable this, go to Settings > Notifications and tasks > Key Alerts > Qualification maximum hours risk

How this feature works:

When an employee clocks out Tanda/Workforce takes all timesheet hours in the past, then adds them to all rostered hours in the future. If this adds up to more than the maximum hours for that qualification, the manager will receive a push notification.

You can also customise the receiver of the alerts. Receiving this notification will be through the mobile app so make sure you have our Tanda/Workforce Mobile app installed.


Reporting on qualifications

To download a report of employee's current qualifications, navigate to Workforce > Staff > Tools > Export > Employee data (CSV)

The file will contain a list of all qualifications that are 'Current', along with their expiry dates and future Effective Dates. To make it easier to read, you can use Excel's 'Text to columns' functionality to split the data up. Select a comma as the first delimiter and semicolon as the second delimiter. Search 'How to split text to columns in Excel' to find a tutorial.

4. Enter the details, and click Update Employee Details to save your changes:


Staff notifications

Employees will receive an email containing all qualifications that are expiring in exactly one month, and again if the qualification expired before it is updated. These emails are sent out at 8 am according to the organisation’s Timezone:


Self-managed Student Visas

The combination of features and alerts work together to track maximum working hours:

  1. Managers alerted if employee at risk of exceeding their maximum hours

  2. Prevent roster publishing if above maximum hours or visa expired

  3. Set restrictions to apply only during term times

  4. Allow employees to update their qualifications, with manager approval and audit trail

  5. Set which permission levels receives notifications for qualification updates and upcoming expiry dates

  6. Set which permission levels can edit and approve all qualifications

  7. Report on student visas

Set up student visa Qualification

You can seamlessly manage student visas in Tanda/Workforce through Qualifications. Setting this up is just the same as how you configure qualifications.

Use the above qualification guide to enable the qualifications feature. Then, create a new qualification called 'Student Visa' and set the maximum hours. Tick 'Prohibit roster publishing' (optional). Lastly, apply the qualification to your student visa employees on their profiles by ticking 'Current'.

Key Alert for maximum hours

If you want to be notified if your staff is at overtime risk, you can enable the Key Alerts through your settings. Click the cog wheel icon at the top right corner > Notifications and tasks > Qualification maximum hours risk > select the people who should receive the alerts:

Make sure you have downloaded our mobile app so you will receive the alerts.

Prevent publishing roster if hours exceeded

To do this, go to Workforce > Qualifications > click the ‘pencil icon’ to edit the qualification > tick the box that says ‘Prohibit roster publishing’:

You will always see a roster warning if you’ve rostered them for more than the maximum working hours or if the qualification is expired, but enabling this options means you won't be able to publish the roster if this warning is showing:

If you are using Employee Self Service, unapproved changes to the qualification will also prohibit roster publishing.


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