Overview
Once your employer has set up the working schedule for a given day/week/month, you may wish to switch a shift with one of your colleagues.
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Permissions
To be able to swap shifts, you will need the View T&A Working Schedule permission.
Swapping Shifts
Swapping a shift can be done by going to the Working schedule in the Scheduler section.
Click on the three dots of your shift. You will see an option Request Swap. Select this and you will be able to click on the shift you want take instead.
Swapping Off days
Swapping a shift for an off day works in the same way:
The same applies for swapping an off day with a shift:
Exceptions
You may not swap a shift with another if this will cause an overlap:
In such cases, the HR manager will need to manually amend shift.
Approval
Once swapped, the employee whose shift you wish to switch will receive a notification in the Requests section prior to being approved by your manager.
Your manager will receive a notification the Requests section too, and will have to approve this swap.
A notification of a pending swap request will also appear in the Working Schedule:
Once approved, you will receive an email:
Please note that you can only request swaps for future dates.