HCG: 'JaDE Eases Administrative Burden of Short-Term Childcare Leave for Mid-Sized and Small Businesses'

Human Consulting Group (HCG) announced that it will support short-term childcare leave response features in its HR solution for mid-sized and small businesses, JaDE. The supported features are automatic leave-day calculation and automatic payroll calculation. HCG said this would ease the administrative burden on mid-sized and small businesses.

The short-term childcare leave system took effect on August 20. It was introduced against the backdrop of the government’s expanded policies to address low birth rates and its expanded policies to support work-life balance. Eligible workers are those raising children age 8 or younger, or in the second grade of elementary school or below. The reasons for use are a child’s illness, vacation, or school closure, and it can be used when emergency care is needed. It can be used once a year, in units of 1 week or 2 weeks.

HCG projected that users of short-term childcare leave will rise rapidly, based on the fact that monthly use restrictions under the existing childcare leave system have been eased. It also cited the growing importance of flexible leave systems as a competitive factor in companies’ efforts to secure talent.

HCG said that interest among companies is also growing alongside the increase in short-term childcare leave use. Areas of interest include establishing payroll settlement standards suited to a more segmented childcare leave system and setting up a management system for leave days.

After the new system takes effect, payroll work for corporate HR teams is expected to increase. The growing workload includes prorated calculation of base salary, application of fixed allowance payment and deduction standards, 4 major insurance filings, and insurance premium settlement. In addition, the need to centrally manage remaining leave days by employee’s child and to centrally manage existing childcare leave usage histories is also rising.

In particular, because remaining leave days by child and past usage records must be handled together, the manual and Excel-based management methods used by mid-sized and small businesses carry the risk of calculation errors and violations of statutory standards. Such calculation errors and violations of statutory standards can lead to labor risks.

HCG introduced JaDE as a way to reduce this burden. When short-term childcare leave is requested, JaDE automatically calculates the remaining days based on each child’s total usage limit, reflects existing usage history, and deducts the requested leave period from the remaining days. It also supports systematic management of leave histories.

In addition, by linking payroll data with the leave order period, JaDE provides a function that prorates deductions from base salary for the leave period, and it also prorates deductions for fixed allowances for the leave period according to company-specific standards. As a result, it is expected to reduce the practical burden on HR staff.

Hur Wook, head of Human Consulting Group, said that in an environment where work and leave systems are diversifying, the key to corporate HR competitiveness is the rapid in-house adoption of new systems and consistent standard management. He added that JaDE is built on know-how accumulated in the field, and that JaDE contributes to improving HR team productivity through automation of repetitive tasks such as data cross-checking and settlement.

Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407606

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