Available for the following Payroll classic plans: Essentials, Standard, Premium
Available for the following user access levels: Employee
As an employee, you'll need to submit a leave request for time off, such as for a doctor's appointment or a trip. This allows your manager to review and approve your request, ensuring it doesn't conflict with any projects or team schedules.
You can use the Payroll platform's "Request Leave" feature to check your leave balance and submit a request if you have enough leave. The feature also lets you view the status of your requests, edit them if details change, or delete them if no longer needed.
This applies to Employment Hero Payroll users. For the HR platform, see this article.
Important
If you cannot submit leave through the Payroll platform, contact your payroll administrator because one of the two following scenarios applies:
- Your payroll admin needs to enable employee portal access for you or,
- Your organisation manages leave in the HR platform, not in the Payroll platform.
Important
If you are a HR+PY connected client, from October 2023, you will be notified about our new integrated feature where HR will be your source of truth for all Leave settings. If you have been migrated to the new platform, then the article you need for leave requests is: Submit, view and edit leave | HR Employee Content.
Getting started
- Click the Account menu.
- Click on the employee portal you need to access.
- Click the Leave menu.
- Click on the Apply for Leave button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Leave category.
Important
You can select what type of leave you can take, based upon the leave allowance, pay categories, and awards you are working under. Two options that you can set up in the Payroll platform are standard weeks and standard hours.
If you only need to take a half day off work, then you can edit the value within the Leave Required field, i.e., instead of nominating eight hours for a full day of leave, you can nominate four hours for a half day of leave.
- First day of leave.
- Last day of leave.
- Notes.
- Click the Add Document button to add any required files.
- Click the Submit Request button.
Maintain
- Click the Account menu.
- Click on the employee portal you need to access.
- Click the Leave menu.
Helpful Hint
You will now see your leave balance on your screen.
- Click the Account menu.
- Click on the employee portal you need to access.
- Click the Leave menu.
Helpful Hint
You will now see your leave history on your screen.
- Click the Account menu.
- Click on the employee portal you need to access.
- Click the Leave menu.
Helpful Hint
You will now see your leave requests on your screen.
Important
Editing your leave request is only possible if your payroll admin has not applied or part applied it in a pay run.
- Click the Account menu.
- Click on the employee portal you need to access.
- Click the Leave menu.
- Click the Edit button.
- Update the relevant information and then click the Submit Request button.
Important
Deleting your leave request is only possible if your payroll admin has not applied or part applied it in a pay run.
- Click the Account menu.
- Click on the employee portal you need to access.
- Click the Leave menu.
- Click the Delete button.
- Click the OK button.
Further information
| Pending | Your leave is waiting on your manager to approve. |
| Approved | Your manager has approved your leave. |
| Declined | Your manager has rejected your leave request. |