How to schedule employees’ vacations costefficiently and unbiased, when the minimum demand for working employees varies between and within seasons?

Description

In some industries, forecasted minimum demand for personnel varies
from season to another, the maximum (non-overtime) workload per
employee can differ between periods for which shifts are planned,
compensatory personnel is not available, and recruitment requires a
long training period for a class of new employees. We discuss how
operations research can be used to support cost-efficient scheduling
of employees’ vacations for one calendar year. This process is further
complicated by several conditions set by collective bargaining
and law, the need for unbiased and fair treatment of employees in
various aspects, and the goal of acknowledging employees’ wishes
on their vacation schedule. We develop a MILP model to solve the
above-mentioned problem and discuss how the model will be applied
to schedule vacations of some 1000 employees in 26 depots in Finland.

Period	13 Jul 2015
Event title	European Conference on Operational Research
Event type	Conference
Conference number	27
Location	Glasgow, United KingdomShow on map