Request to Cover My Shift

Employees can request other employees to cover a scheduled shift for them.

Submit requests from the Calendar to ask another employee to cover your shift.

  1. Open the Calendar by one of the following methods:
    • Click Tap Home  > My Schedule
    • Click Tap Main Menu  > My Information > My Calendar.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Click Tap New Request  . Select Request to Cover.
    • Right-click a day in the future that has a shift. Click Tap Request to Cover 
  3. In Request to Cover:
    1. Select the day in the calendar where the shift is and select the shift that you want covered.

    You can select shift from another month:

     Previous — Show the previous month.

     This Month — Show the month that includes today.

     Next — Show the next month.

    (Optional) Click Tap View Details .

    1. Under Employees, search for employees or select an employee to cover your shift. .You can search for multiple employees by typing their names in the Search box with spaces between each employee name.
    2. If an employee accepts the shift and it is automatically approved, the other employees who receive the request become invalidated. If the manager approves the request, the other employees receive a refusal.
    3. Select the employee that you want to cover your shift. Employee records show an availability percentage bar.

    1. Click Tap Submit
  4. In the Request to Cover summary, click tap one of the following:
    • OK: Wait for the recipient to respond to your request.
    • Cancel Request