What is an Occurrence in relation to an absence rule?

The concept of Occurrences is used predominantly by companies that offer a sick pay scheme in addition to SSP. An employee for example, might be entitled to full pay for four weeks before then moving onto SSP as part of their terms of employment. An occurrence can be set up within Timegate Web and then assigned to an absence rule to enable the appropriate actions to be undertaken i.e. pay at a full rate for four weeks and then pay at SSP level

Whilst it’s possible to create an occurrence for any type of absence rule (holiday, sickness, parental, etc), occurrences are generally only used within a sickness context.