Available for the following HR classic plans: Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following Payroll classic plans: Essentials, Standard, Premium
Available for the following user access level: Admin
Important
If you have joined Employment Hero on or since 1 January 2026, you will have access to the new leave experience. See here for more information regarding this.
If you joined Employment Hero before 1 January 2026, you will get access to the new leave experience from 4 August 2026.
For the accrued leave tool to calculate a projected leave balance when an employee applies for leave on the HR classic platform, the leave category standard allowance must be set to Hours Per Hour Worked on the Payroll classic platform (pictured below). You can learn how to edit a leave category here.
The following hide settings also stop the accrued leave tool from working:
- Hide accruals from pay slips.
- Hide balances from pay slips and in employee portal.
- Hide leave category name from employee view.
Employment Hero Payroll classic Full-time employees
The calculation used by Employment Hero to determine an employee's projected leave balance depends on what you selected within the employee's pay details. To see the details on who can see their projected leave balance, refer to the table below.
The table below shows how accrued leave is calculated for full-time employees on HR classic, based on custom work hours, normal working hours and timesheet type settings.
| Custom work hours enabled | Paying employee their normal working hours by default | Timesheet type | Project Leave Visible |
| Enabled | Enabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Enabled | Disabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Disabled | Enabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Disabled | Enabled | Do not use timesheets. | |
| Enabled | Enabled | Do not use timesheets. | |
| Disabled | Enabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Enabled | Enabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Disabled | Disabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Disabled | Disabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Disabled | Disabled | Do not use timesheets. | |
| Enabled | Disabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Enabled | Disabled | Do not use timesheets. |
Employment Hero Payroll classic Part-time employees
The calculation used by Employment Hero to determine an employee's projected leave balance depends on what you selected within the employee's pay details. To see the details on who can see their projected leave balance, refer to the table below.
The table below shows how accrued leave is calculated for part-time employees on HR classic, based on custom work hours, normal working hours and timesheet type settings.
| Custom work hours | Paying employee their normal working hours by default | Timesheet type | Projected Leave Visible |
| Enabled | Enabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Enabled | Disabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Disabled | Enabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Disabled | Enabled | Do not use timesheets. | |
| Enabled | Enabled | Do not use timesheets. | |
| Disabled | Enabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Enabled | Enabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Disabled | Disabled | Use timesheets to submit all time worked. | |
| Disabled | Disabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Disabled | Disabled | Do not use timesheets. | |
| Enabled | Disabled | Use timesheets for exceptions only. | |
| Enabled | Disabled | Do not use timesheets. |
Projected leave visibility for Xero
If you are integrated with Xero, refer to this article for more information about projected leave visibility.