Dear HR Community Subscribers

Our company uses an HR portal or HRIS for employees to apply for childcare leave. 

However, the portal settings only allow us to choose either childcare leave to start from:

1. The child's birth year: or 

2. The following year. 

We currently set it as a child's birth year and the same settings apply to the whole company.

By doing so, I feel that this disadvantages babies who are born in September and after.

This is because the mothers will not be able to take childcare leave after their maternity within the same year.

We are in the energy industry.

Is there a way around this?

Thank you for your advice.

Lynn