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Managing your leave requests helps keep your time away from work accurately logged while ensuring your manager and team stay informed.
With the My Leave Requests feature, both employees and contractors can edit and delete requests as needed to reflect schedule changes. They can update details, attach documents, or remove a request entirely. This flexibility helps maintain clear communication and prevents issues with processed leave.
Important
This article assumes you as an employee or contractor can access the Actions button on your My Leave Requests page. If the Actions button is not visible, you can neither edit nor delete your leave request and should contact your employer for assistance and/or approval. Employer approval is especially important if your leave has already been processed in a pay period.
Manage leave as an employee
- Log into the Employment Hero platform.
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the My Leave submenu.
- Find the leave request you want to edit.
- On the relevant row, click the Actions drop-down button.
- Click the Edit button.
- Make the required changes.
- (Optional) Click the Add document button and attach one or more files.
- Click the Submit button.
The leave logic rules: Keeping leave records accurate is a vital part of staying compliant and ensuring your payroll is correct. To support this, we have updated the platform logic to:
- Prevent employees from deleting or editing leave requests that have already been approved or were previously approved that have already started, or have already ended.
- They can edit can edit/delete approved or previously approved leave requests that are scheduled to start in the future.
- They can only edit the end date of an approved or previously approved open-ended leave request that has already started. These are leave requests that were submitted with a start date but no end date, and approved without an end date. Editing the end date will resubmit the request for approval.
- Pending leave requests can always be edited/deleted.
- Managers/admins can always edit/delete leave requests (pending or approved) until it has been processed, as long as it is not their own.
This update removes the risk of leave balances being incorrectly adjusted for time off that has already been taken or agreed upon with a manager and reduces administrative burden.
- Log into the Employment Hero platform.
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the My Leave submenu.
- Click the Actions drop-down button.
- Click the Delete button.
- Click the Delete button.
Manage leave as a contractor
- Log into the Employment Hero platform.
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the My Leave submenu.
- Click the Actions drop-down button.
- Click the Edit button.
- Make the required changes.
- (Optional) Click the Add document button and attach one or more files. (Make sure you only have one window logged into Employment Hero as this helps ensure the upload works correctly.)
- Click the Submit button.
- Log into the Employment Hero platform.
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the My Leave submenu.
- Click the Actions drop-down button.
- Click the Delete button.
- Click the Delete button.
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