Available for the following HR classic 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, which lets you submit leave requests and view their statuses and overall submission history.
Manage leave
Note: The total hours taken for each day will depend on the employment settings that your company has set. Part-time employees will need to check the auto-populated value for each day to make sure their leave request displays their correct hours. Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the Leave submenu.
- Click the Create Leave Request button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Leave category
- From
- To
- Click the Submit button.
Helpful Hint
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.
- Click the Time menu.
- Under Leave, click the Leave submenu.
You will now see your leave balances in the My Leave Requests screen. There will be a horizontal bar per leave category that shows your Approved leave requests (in green), Pending leave requests (in orange), and Remaining leave balance (in grey). - Click the View future year button.
The tile entitled Annual Leave will now have a status box in the top right corner that says Viewing future year (this term either refers to the next calendar year or the next financial year depending on your organisation's settings).
Now you are in the Viewing future year status, you can see your approved and pending leave requests and balances for the following year.
- 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.
A window titled Leave Request will now show you the details of your leave request.
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 | This provides a timestamp of the leave request creation date. |
Synced at | This provides a timestamp of when the leave request tried to sync with Employment Hero Payroll. |
Sync successful | This states whether the synchronisation of the leave request between Employment Hero and Employment Hero Payroll has been successful. |
Edited at | This 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 | This is used for pending or declined leave requests that have not synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Green clock | This is used for approved leave requests that have synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Red clock | This is used for approved leave requests that have not synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll. | |
Orange clock | This is 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 | This is used to alert an Admin that the employee has entered leave hours for a public holiday. |
Frequently asked questions
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