Configure vacation, sick and maternity leave to the Employment Act once, then let employees self-serve requests that flow straight to the schedule and the pay run.
Workzoom's Bahamas leave management software configures vacation, sick and maternity leave to the Employment Act's minimum two weeks' vacation, one week's paid sick leave after six months, and twelve weeks' maternity leave. Employees submit requests with their real-time balance visible, and one manager approval updates the schedule and creates the payroll deduction with no re-entry. Cable Bahamas moved 850 employees from manual leave tracking to self-service as part of the shift that cut its payroll processing time by 70 percent.
Our clients
When employees can see their real-time balance and submit requests on their own, the volume of routine questions HR handles drops immediately. Silvera for Seniors eliminated their highest category of HR inquiries by moving 400 employees across 36 buildings to self-serve.
Seeing who else is already off before approving a request prevents the coverage gaps that happen when multiple people on the same team take the same week. The approver sees the requestor, duration, reason, balance, the team calendar, and a ranked list of qualified substitutes on one screen.
For salaried employees, leave deductions calculate and appear in the next pay run automatically the moment a request is approved. There is no export, no spreadsheet reconciliation, and no separate step between time off and payroll.
Workzoom lets you configure leave types, accrual rules, carry-over limits, and waiting periods once. From there, accruals calculate automatically, requests route to the right manager, and payroll deductions apply without re-entry.
Workzoom gives employees mobile-friendly access to their current leave balance and a simple submission form from any device. Requests route to their direct manager automatically based on org structure, with no email chains or spreadsheet lookups involved.
Workzoom shows managers the requestor, duration, reason, balance, team calendar, and a ranked list of qualified substitutes alongside every leave request before they approve. One-tap approval or decline with a reason replaces the back-and-forth of email-based approvals.
Workzoom connects approved leave directly to payroll so that sick days, vacation, and personal days all generate the correct deduction codes for the next pay run automatically. There is no export, no import, and no month-end reconciliation between leave and payroll.
Workzoom connects time off and scheduling in one pipeline so approved leave triggers a vacancy in the schedule that managers can fill from the qualified staff list. Organizations with seasonal staffing swings keep coverage intact when approved leave automatically opens a fillable shift instead of a silent gap.
Every requirement below is handled by the platform on every pay run, not configured per-customer.
Every employer must give an employee a vacation of at least two weeks on completion of each twelve months of employment. Vacation pay rises with tenure: one week's basic pay for an employee employed six months or more but under one year, two weeks' basic pay for one year or more but under seven years, and three weeks' basic pay for seven years or more.
An employee who has been employed for at least six months is entitled to one week of paid sick leave in any year where illness prevents the employee from performing duties. No payment is due for a period of sick leave that is only one day long, and sick leave does not accumulate from year to year. A medical certificate is required for every period of sick leave except the first day.
A female employee who has been employed for at least twelve months and delivers a medical certificate is entitled to maternity leave of not less than twelve weeks, arranged as not less than one week before the expected date of confinement and not less than eight weeks after. During that leave, once in every three years, the employer must pay a minimum sum equal to thirty three and one third percent of the portion of wages that does not exceed the National Insurance ceiling on insurable wage.
Four steps. Vacation, sick and maternity rules applied before the request is approved.
Remaining balance and booked future leave are visible before the request goes in, from any device.
The requestor, duration, reason, balance, team calendar and a ranked list of qualified substitutes appear on one screen before approval.
The vacancy surfaces in the scheduling module immediately, where managers see a ranked list of qualified staff who can fill it.
For salaried employees, leave deductions calculate and appear in the next pay run the moment a request is approved, with no export or re-entry.
Proof
A Workzoom customer running time off in Bahamas today.
Payroll runs seamlessly, and HR processes are no longer a tedious grind. It's simplified how we work, allowing us to focus more on our people.
The story
The story
The Bahamas Employment Act sets a minimum of two weeks' vacation on completion of each twelve months of employment, with vacation pay rising from one week's basic pay at six months of service to three weeks' basic pay at seven years or more. Sick leave is one week paid per year after six months of service, with no pay for a one-day-only absence, no carryover, and a medical certificate required after the first day.
Maternity leave is not less than twelve weeks, one week before the expected date of confinement and eight weeks after, for an employee with twelve months of service and a medical certificate. The employer pays a minimum of thirty three and one third percent of wages, up to the National Insurance ceiling, once every three years.
The story
Cable Bahamas, a Bahamian telecom operator with 850 employees across Nassau and the Family Islands, replaced manual leave tracking with self-service time-off requests routed for approval inside Workzoom. Employees log hours, request time off, and check pay stubs from the same self-service surface, on any device.
That change was part of a wider shift: payroll processing dropped 70 percent, from five days to a day and a half, with three payroll staff managing the full operation. The leave result belongs to Cable Bahamas and is not a guaranteed outcome for every buyer.
The story
When a manager approves a leave request, Workzoom removes the employee from the schedule and creates a vacancy that the scheduling module can fill from a ranked list of qualified staff. For salaried employees, the same approval calculates the payroll deduction and posts it to the next pay run automatically.
There is no export between the approval and the pay run, and no separate step for the schedule change. Managers approve with the requestor, duration, reason, balance, team calendar and a ranked substitute list on one screen, not blind.
The story
The Workforce Suite is US$4 per employee per month with a US$400 monthly minimum. All four suites, HR, Workforce, Payroll and Talent, are US$16 per employee per month with a US$700 monthly minimum. Implementation, migration, training and support are included; taxes and optional extras are separate.
Bring your own vacation, sick and maternity policies to a demonstration. Submit a request, approve it, and review the resulting schedule vacancy and payroll entry before moving your leave program, rather than relying on another customer's configuration.
Real product, real questions, no slides. Starts at $4 per employee per month, CAD or USD, with $0 setup fees.
Bahamas pricing
No setup fees, no long-term contracts. Implementation, migration, and training included.
Existing Workzoom customers add a suite for $4 USD per employee per month, the standard suite rate.
Bring the part that's costing you time. We'll show you what running it properly looks like.
How Workzoom time off runs day to day in Bahamas, with the local statutory specifics teams ask about.
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