Leave Management

Leave Management - the basics

About Leave Management

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

Set up Leave Management

A collection of guides to help you set up Leave Management, including your calendar, time off policies and time off approvers.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Set up time off permissions

How to configure what employees and managers can do with regards to time off.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

Set up calendar

Keep track of your and employees upcoming dates - Create public holiday groups, import public holidays, and create blackout dates.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

Set up time off policies

How to create or amend time off policies and assign employees to them.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

Set up individual allowances

Amend time off entitlement for individual employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Set up time off approvers

Set up who you want to approve time off for employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Enter historical annual leave

Change balances to accurately show current time off already taken by employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Automated reports for time off

How to set up reports that will be sent automatically based on defined rules.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Time off allowance and public holidays

How to set up time off policies based on what you want to happen when employees take time off on public holidays.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Set up time off approvers for a time off policy

Set time off approvers for specific time off policy.

Written by Daniels Korens
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Time off permissions for team managers

Permissions you can configure for team managers regarding time off for employees in their team(s).

Written by Oliver Cook
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Time off permissions for employees

Permissions you can configure for employee users and their time off.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Time off permissions for direct managers

Permissions you can configure for direct managers regarding time off for their employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Override default weekend days

How to change what days count as weekend days for certain employment types.

Written by Daniels Korens
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Control whose calendars employees can see

How to allow employees access to see other employee's calendars in Sage HR.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Sharing Parental Leaves

Allow employees to share parental leaves with another person

Written by Luis Garcia
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Enabling length of service allowance

Add additional vacation days based on how long employees have worked in the company.

Written by Julianna Markova
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File attachments in time-off requests

How to allow adding a document to a time-off requests and how to make these documents mandatory.

Written by Daniels Korens
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Set up email reminders for pending time off requests

How to set up automatic email alerts about pending email reminders for time off approvers.

Written by Daniels Korens
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Edit a time off policy to stop accruing allowance when taking leave

This article explains how to configure a time off policy so that an employee does not accrue allowance during time off of a certain length

Written by Luis Garcia
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Keep in touch days

Employee can return to work while having time off, but without changing their leave allowance

Written by Luis Garcia
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Set up a replacement person

How to set up being able to choose a replacement person when someone makes a time off request.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Apply restrictions for time off requests

You can apply restrictions for time requests by configuring settings within a time off policy.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Edit a time off policy

How to amend an existing time off policy.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Add employees to a time off policy

How to assign employees to a time off policy. The same steps apply for removing employees from a time off policy.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Create a non-labour based policy

How to create a time off policy for employees who get designated amount of days off in a calendar period.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Create a labour-based time off policy

How to set up a time off policy so that time off is accrued based on hours or days worked by an employee.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated this week

Create an event based policy

How to create a time off policy where time off is based on one off events, such as e.g. maternity leave.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Create time off policy based on working pattern

How to make a time of policy base working days and working hours based on a working pattern.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Add a parental leave time off policy

How to create and configure parental leave time off policies such as maternity, paternity, adoption, or child bereavement.

Written by Luis Garcia
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Set up and process TOIL

How to set up and process Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) for employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Change time off balance for an employee in current period

Increase or decrease the balance of a time of policy for an individual employee in the current period.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Accrue time off based on employment status

How to set up a time off policy to allow employees to accrue time off based on their employment status

Written by Oliver Cook
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Accrue time off based on working pattern

How to set up a time off policy to allow employees to accrue time off based on their working pattern.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Accrue time off based on time logged in timesheets

Enabling time off accruals for employees based on logged work time

Written by Daniels Korens
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Time off requests automatically approved

How to enable or disable employees having their time off requests automatically approved.

Written by Oliver Cook
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How do I book holidays and annual leave?

How to book time off for a holiday, annual leave, etc.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Requesting time off

How to book time off for holidays, sick leave, or other time off policies set up in Sage HR.

Written by Oliver Cook
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How do I record sick leave?

How to add time off for sick leave if an employee or yourself has been off work due to being unwell.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Book time off for myself

How to request time off for yourself, such as requesting holidays or adding sick leave.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Request parental leave

How to request parental leave, such as maternity leave, paternity leave or adoption leave etc.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Record leave for an employee

If you are an admin or team manager, you can request time off for another employee such as to add annual leave or record sick leave etc.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Book time off for multiple employees

How to create time off request for more than one employee at the same time.

Written by Oliver Cook
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A time off policy isn't listed when requesting time off

What to do if the time off policy you need to use isn't listed when you book time off.

Written by Oliver Cook
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No option to request time off

Reasons why you may not have an option to add time off.

Written by Oliver Cook
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View your time off

How to view your time off, including checking your time off balance, active time off requests, and who approves your time off

Written by Oliver Cook
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Make changes to a time off request

How to edit your own time off requests.

Written by Julianna Markova
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Cancel time off requests

How to cancel time off request and time off that has already been approved.

Written by Oliver Cook
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View your time off history

How to look at your previous and current time off requests.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Edit an employee's time off approver

How to amend who a time off approver is for an employee.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

Bradford Factor

Details on Bradford Factor, including, how to view the report, and how calculations are affected by your time off policy settings.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated this week

Carry over employees' unused annual leave

How to carry over any annual leave not used by employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

Edit "carried over" time off for employees

How to edit carry over from previous period.

Written by Daniels Korens
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Time off balance for an employee is not correct?

What to check for in your settings if a time off balance for an employee looks wrong.

Written by Oliver Cook
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View an employee's time off balance

How to see leave balance of an employee.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Check for unused time off

How you can view available days employees have left to use for their time off policies.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Unable to cancel time off

Why an employee can't cancel their time off and how to allow them to.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Approve or decline time off and cancellations

How to approve time off requests and cancellations or decline time off requests and cancellations.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Calendar General Settings

How to amend your calendar layout and what appears on it.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Configure what time off information is visible in the Calendar

How the permissions configuration affects the visibility of time off events in the calendar

Written by Luis Garcia
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Using the calendar

How to use your Sage HR calendar.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Create Blackout dates

Establish days that cannot be booked off by employees.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Custom working days

How to set up custom working days.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Set up public holiday groups

How to create public holiday groups and assign employees to them.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Assign employees to an existing public holiday group

How to add employees to a public holiday group.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Create a public holiday group

How to add a new public holiday group.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Add a public holiday to calendar

How to add a public holiday (bank holiday) manually to show on the Sage HR calendar.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Import Public Holidays

How to import public holidays into your calendar if you don't want to add them manually.

Written by Oliver Cook
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Assign public holiday groups to a public holiday

How to add public holiday groups to a public holiday retrospectively.

Written by Oliver Cook
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How to process extra bank holiday for the Queen's funeral

How to process Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral as a bank holiday in Sage HR (UK only).

Written by Oliver Cook
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Add Queen's funeral as a public holiday

How to add Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's funeral as an additional bank holiday in Sage HR.

Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago