1. Click the   Settings menu. 
2. Under Notifications, click My Notifications.
   
   You will now see the My Notifications page with various notification options organised by category.
3. Expand the Leave section and enable the checkbox for Send calendar event for leave (Employees).
4. (If you are a manager with reporting employees) Enable the checkbox for Send calendar event for leave (Managers). 

Approving your relevant leave setting allows Employment Hero to sync email notifications with attached ICS (Internet Calendaring and Scheduling) files. These notifications detail new, updated, or cancelled leave requests. They will automatically appear on your calendar, where you​ will be marked as busy throughout the entirety of your leave.

Having a standard Leave Calendar events is especially useful for direct (primary) managers who want to track employee absences and availability. Employees' leave requests trigger real-time notifications that sync to the Leave Calendar, so managers have a single, clear overview of their team's goings-on.

It is important to remember, however, that this function is only for primary managers. Users who only have the Employee User Access level cannot use this feature.

As the platform exchanges and synchronises employees' calendar information, it is important to understand what happens when that information is sensitive, such as when it is about Domestic Violence Leave.

Employment Hero is designed to send a standard Leave Calendar event to managers to avoid having automated emails that reveal sensitive information. This is so that employees' privacy is protected even if managers accidentally leave their inbox open around other people.

The primary manager can decide if they wish to learn more about the leave request. They can only do this by using the Leave Calendar feature in Employment Hero or their Employment Hero Work app.

If your Outlook calendar displays a date that does not match an approved leave request you submitted through your HR platform, try simply clicking the invite to open it. This often corrects the date displayed in Outlook.

If the issue persists, note that it may have occurred due to how Outlook handles .ics calendar invites. We therefore recommend contacting Outlook support directly for assistance.

There may be times when your email provider will need you to respond to an event before it even reaches your calendar. To ensure these events appear automatically, you may need to check and configure your external calendar settings accordingly.

In your Google Calendar, the given event will show automatically when your leave request has been successfully synced to it. However, note that a notification in your inbox may ask whether the email is spam.

To avoid this question occurring, it is recommended that you carry out the following steps:

• In the email, click a button in your inbox that confirms you trust the sender (for example, there may be an 'I know the Sender' button).
• Add no-reply@employmenthero.com to your contact list.
• Reply to the email to check if everything is working as it should.

After you complete these steps, your calendar events should show normally in your Google calendar without the need to respond to the event anymore.