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Approve or decline time off

Decide the time-off requests sent to you, and tell someone why if you decline.

Who can do this: If someone reports to you, their time-off requests come to you. HR Admins and System Admins can decide any request.

Steps

  1. Open Notifications and choose Review request on the time-off request. On Home, Leave request to approve under Needs you opens the same request.
  2. Check the dates, how much it takes from their allowance and who else in their team is away.
  3. To approve it, choose Approve.
  4. To decline instead, choose Decline, add a note to tell them why if you like, then choose Decline request.

Not ready to decide? Choose Review later. The request stays under Needs you until it's decided.

What happens next

They get a notification straight away. Approved time off comes off their allowance and shows in Who's away. If you declined it, they see your note on My time off.

If something goes wrong

It says you're not their approver. As an HR Admin or System Admin you can still decide it. Choose why under Why you're deciding it, and HollyHR keeps the reason in the history.

Someone's requests don't come to you. Requests go to the person's manager, or whoever covers for them. Ask an HR Admin to check who they report to on their Employment tab.

The dates have already passed. You can still approve it. Approving records it as leave taken.

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