Managing Employee Time Off/Leave Requests
Learn how to manage your employee time off/leave requests from within OneBoxBM.
Manage your employees holiday, personal day and sick day requests from within their employment record.
Key Points
When managing employee time off/leave requests, the main points to be aware of are.
- Employee time off/leave requests are split into holidays, personal days and sick days.
- Employees can make their own time off/leave requests should you wish to grant them access to do so.
- Changes to the date of a leave request will reset the status of the request if the user doesn't have
permissions to manage time off/leave requests.
- In order to view/manage time off/leave requests, you must be granted access to do so.
- You can restrict access to time off/leave requests days by employee group.
Step-by-step
See below for a step-by-step guide on creating new requests, updating existing requests and
deleting requests.
Requesting holidays, personal days and sick days.
- Navigate to the 'Workforce' area using the system menu.
- Use the search to find the employee that you wish to update.
- Click/press the 'Manage' button.
- You can use the one in the right hand panel or the one in the list.
- Once the employee record has loaded, go to the 'Time Off' tab and then expand the relevant time
off/leave request tab.
- Click/press the 'New' button.
- Specify the from/to dates for the time off/leave.
- Specify whether the leave is paid or unpaid.
- Specify whether the request is for a full day or not.
- Specify the status of the request.
- The status can only be set if you have been granted sufficient access.
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Enter the reason for the request (optional).
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Enter any notes about the time off/leave request.
- Notes can only be made against the request if you have been granted sufficient access.
- Click/press the 'Save & Close' button.
Updating an existing holiday, personal day and sick day requests
- Navigate to the 'Workforce' area using the system menu.
- Use the search to find the employee that you wish to update.
- Click/press the 'Manage' button.
- You can use the one in the right hand panel or the one in the list.
- Once the employee record has loaded, go to the 'Time Off' tab and then expand the relevant time
off/leave request tab.
- Find the record you wish to update.
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Click/press the down arrow next to the 'View' button and select 'Edit'.
- Alternatively, you can also click/press 'View' then open the editor from there.
- Make the required changes.
- Click/press the 'Save & Close' button.
Deleting holiday, personal day and sick day requests
- Navigate to the 'Workforce' area using the system menu.
- Use the search to find the employee that you wish to update.
- Click/press the 'Manage' button.
- You can use the one in the right hand panel or the one in the list.
- Once the employee record has loaded, go to the 'Time Off' tab and then expand the relevant time
off/leave request tab.
- Find the record you wish to delete.
- Click/press the down arrow next to the 'View' button and select 'Delete'.
- When prompted, click/press the 'Delete' button on the confirmation dialog.