Available for the following HR Classic plans: Free, Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Employee, Manager, Admin
New: More control over your leave settings
If your organisation uses our Employment Hero Payroll, you may have noticed that leave settings offered less flexibility than our standalone All-In-One platform — even simple changes, like updating a calendar colour, meant contacting support. That's changing.
What's new
- A dedicated Leave Settings page — Find everything in one place under Settings > Time and Attendance for leave allowance templates and leave categories.
- Direct control over local leave settings — Admins and Owners can now update local preferences for every leave category themselves, without waiting on support — all while your payroll sync stays fully intact.
What this means for you
- No more support tickets for simple tweaks — Update things like leave calendar display colours yourself, right in Employment Hero.
- Clear guidance on what you can change — Helpful banners let you know at a glance whether a setting is controlled by your payroll integration or can be edited in Employment Hero.
- More flexibility on who can manage this — Beyond primary Admins, Organisation Owners and anyone with the "Leave Settings Management – Leave Types" permission can now make these updates too.
Keeping your data safe
- Category names that come from your payroll system stay locked as read-only, so nothing gets out of sync — but any locally-created category names remain fully editable.
- Access is limited to Admins, Owners, and authorised delegates, so changes can only be made by the right people.
- Every update is logged in your audit trail, so you always know who changed what, and when.
We're continuing to invest in bringing payroll-connected organisations the same flexibility and control as our EmploymentOS plans — this is the first step.