Available for the following HR plans: Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following User Access levels: Employee, Manager, Admin
As an employee, it is crucial that you can request leave as easily and efficiently as possible. Doing so ensures that you, your manager, and your colleagues have full visibility of both your work schedule and any dates you plan to have off.
This article explains how to use the Leave feature and its leave calendar, which lets you submit leave requests and view their statuses and overall submission history.
You can sync your leave requests with your calendar automatically. To do this, see this article.
Manage leave
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the Leave submenu.
- Click the Create Leave Request button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Leave category
- From
- To
Tip: You can apply for future leave and see your accrued leave balance even if you have not accrued enough leave. The platform will accommodate the request as projected leave, but it does not consider pending leave requests in this calculation. - Click the Submit button.
Note: Employees can now submit half-day leave requests, in addition to full-day and multiple-day leave requests. The hours taken will be 50% of their standard work hours.
Important
The ability to view a leave request is only available if the payroll platform has processed the leave request within a pay run and imported the pay slips into the HR platform. Use the symbol to see the payroll status of the leave request. You can read more about the symbol in Definitions: Symbols in Further information.
- 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 dropdown button.
- Click the View button.
You can now view the details of your leave request.
For users with access, the leave calendar is viewable to everyone in their organisation. You can use it to search for and view both your own and your colleagues' approved and pending leave.
Note: The calendar will only be visible to you as an employee if your employer has enabled it in their custom security settings.
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the Leave submenu.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the My Leave Requests page to view the leave calendar section.
- Use the search and filter options to customise the leave calendar display.
- Refer to the displayed individual(s) and their leave details in the calendar.
Note: The leave calendar protects everyone’s privacy by displaying only their pending and approved leave dates. Personal details, such as the reason for the leave, are not shown.
Edit data
Note: We recommend that you check with your employer before deleting any leave requests that they have already processed in a pay period. If the Actions button is not visible, this means you are unable to delete your leave request and will need to consult your employer for further assistance.
Remove data
Note: We recommend that you check with your employer before deleting any leave requests that they have already processed in a pay period. If the Actions button is not visible, this means you are unable to delete your leave request and will need to consult your employer for further assistance.
Further information
Pending | Your leave is waiting on your manager to approve. |
Approved | Your manager has approved your leave. |
Partially approved | One of the two required managers has approved a two-level leave request. |
Declined | Your manager has rejected your leave request. |
Created at | Provides a timestamp of the leave request creation date. |
Synced at | Provides a timestamp of when the leave request tried to sync with Employment Hero Payroll. |
Sync successful | States whether the synchronisation of the leave request between Employment Hero and Employment Hero Payroll has been successful. |
Edited at | Provides a timestamp of the last edit done to the leave request after a previous Employment Hero Payroll synchronisation attempt. |
Icon. | Name. | Description. |
---|---|---|
Blue clock | Used for pending or declined leave requests that have not synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Green clock | Used for approved leave requests that have synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Red clock | Used for approved leave requests that have not synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Orange clock | Used for pending, approved, or declined leave requests that have had changes made to them after being synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Aeroplane | You can use the Aeroplane symbol to see if a leave request includes public holidays. The Aeroplane symbol will only show next to approved leave requests. | |
Message | This means the employee has left a note regarding this leave request. | |
Download | This means the employee has attached a file to this leave request. | |
Exclamation | Used to alert an Admin that the employee has entered leave hours for a public holiday. |
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 your HR platform.
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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