Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR plans: Free, Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Manager, Admin
With the View leave requests feature, managers, employees, and contractors can easily check the status of all leave requests – whether they are in the Pending, Approved, or Declined status.
The feature helps managers stay updated on team availability and provides employees with a quick, convenient way to track their own leave.
Important
You can only view a leave request if the Payroll classic platform has processed it in a pay run and imported the pay slips into Employment Hero.
To check the status of a leave request, go to Time in the main menu, select Leave Management from the submenu, then hover your cursor over the relevant symbol. A small black box will then display the leave request's date, time, approver, and payroll sync status.
Manage leave as a manager
- Click the Time menu.
- Click the Leave Management submenu.
- Find the leave request you want to view.
- Click the Actions button.
- Click the View button.
- Click the Time menu.
- Click the Leave Management submenu.
- Find the relevant leave request.
- Hover over the to see the leave balance details.
- On the dashboard, refer to the Leave Calendar widget.
- Click the relevant leave period. (If you hover your cursor over it, you will see a black box confirming the dates.)
- Approve or decline the leave request as required in the Leave Request window.
View leave requests as an employee
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the Leave submenu.
- Click the Filter button.
- Filter your search based on:
- Date Range
- Leave Category
- Status
- Click the Search button.
- Click the Actions drop-down button.
- Click the View button.
- Read the details of your leave request in the Leave Request window.
View leave requests as a contractor
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the Leave submenu.
- Click the Filter button.
- Filter your search based on:
- Date Range
- Leave Category
- Status
- Click the Search button.
- Click the Actions drop-down button.
- Click the View button.
- Read the details of your leave request in the Leave Request window.
Frequently asked questions
There is an occasional issue where external calendar invites in Microsoft Outlook show the wrong date, meaning it is inconsistent with the leave submitted in Employment Hero.
Click on and open the calendar invite often corrects the date display in Outlook.
This issue is due to how Outlook handles .ics calendar invites. As this is an Outlook-specific issue, we recommend contacting Outlook support directly if further assistance is required.
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