Leave Type
1. Go to Leave Type list, click on New.
2. Enter Leave Type Name.
3. Enter Maximum Leave Allocation Allowed, Applicable After (Working Days), Maximum Consecutive Leaves Allowed (optional).
4. Save.
Maximum Leave Allocation Allowed: This field allows you to set the maximum number of the annual allocation of this Leave Type while creating the Leave Policy.
Applicable After (Working Days): Enter the minimum number of working days here. Only the employees who have worked for this number of days or more will be allowed to apply for this particular leave type. Any other leaves (such as Casual Leave, Sick Leave.etc.) availed by the Employees after their joining date will also be considered while calculating working days of the Employee.
Maximum Consecutive Leaves Allowed: It refers to the maximum number of days this particular Leave Type can be availed at a stretch. If an employee exceeds the maximum number of days, their extended leave will be considered as ‘Leave Without Pay'.
Is Carry Forward: If checked, the balance leaves of this Leave Type will be carried forward to the next allocation period.
Is Leave Without Pay: This ensures that the Leave Type will be treated as leaves without pay and salary will get deducted for this Leave Type.
Is Optional Leave: Optional Leaves are holidays that Employees can choose to avail from a list of holidays published by the company. The Holiday List for Optional Leaves can have any number of holidays, but you can restrict the number of such leaves by setting the Max Days Leave Allowed field.
Allow Negative Balance: If checked, the system will always allow to apply and approve leave Application for the Leave Type, even if there is no leave balance.
Allow Over Allocation: If checked, the system will allow allocating more leaves than the number of days in the allocation period.
Include holidays within leaves as leaves: Check this option if you wish to count holidays within leaves as a ‘leave’. For example, if an Employee has applied for leave on Friday and Monday, and Saturday and Sunday are weekly offs, if the 'Include holidays within leaves as leaves' checkbox for the Leave Type is checked, the system will consider Saturday as Sunday as leaves too. Such holidays will be deducted from the total number of leaves.
Is Compensatory: Compensatory leaves are leaves granted for working overtime or on holidays, normally compensated as an encashable leave. You can check this option to mark the Leave Type as compensatory. An Employee can request for compensatory leaves using Compensatory
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