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# Requesting & Approving Leave

> How employees request leave on Omnivoo, how employers review it, and how balances are tracked.

Omnivoo has a simple leave workflow: employees submit a time off request, and their employer approves or rejects it. This guide covers both sides.

## For Employees: Requesting Leave

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open your Leave Balance page">
    Your leave page is titled **Leave Balance** and lives at `/my-leave`. Open it by going to that address directly: there is no Leave item in the left navigation and no leave link on your Home dashboard. (Quick Actions on Home has exactly two cards, **View Payslips** and **Tax Documents**.) Bookmark `/my-leave` if you use it often.

    The page header shows a **Request Leave** button alongside small per-type balance chips, a quick summary of your available days for each leave type.

    At the top of the page, three balance cards show your core leave types:

    * **Casual Leave** (calendar icon)
    * **Sick Leave** (heart icon)
    * **Earned Leave** (trending-up icon)

    Each card shows available days, with used, pending, and total underneath.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Submit a request">
    1. Click **Request Leave** in the page header. A request form opens inline on the same page.
    2. Fill in the form:
       * **Leave Type:** choose Sick Leave, Casual Leave, or Earned Leave.
       * **Start Date** and **End Date:** pick your dates.
       * **Half day:** tick this if you only need part of a day off, then choose **Morning** or **Afternoon**.
       * **Reason:** an optional note describing why you need the time off.
    3. Click **Submit Request**. To discard the form, click **Cancel** or the close (X) button in the top-right of the form.

    <Tip>
      Request leave as early as you can for planned time off, so your manager has time to plan around it. Your start date must be **tomorrow or later**: same-day and past start dates are rejected. See [Leave request rules and limits](/leave-management/leave-rules-and-limits) for all the rules a request must pass.
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Track your request">
    Below the balance cards, the **Leave Requests** section lists your requests with their status:

    | Status        | Meaning                                          |
    | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
    | **Pending**   | Submitted and awaiting your employer's decision. |
    | **Approved**  | Approved by your employer.                       |
    | **Rejected**  | Declined. A reason may be shown.                 |
    | **Cancelled** | You cancelled it before it was decided.          |

    On desktop the requests appear in a table (Type, Dates, Days, Status, Reason, Actions). Half-day requests show "½" in the Days column. On mobile they appear as stacked cards.

    When you have not submitted any requests yet, the Leave Requests section shows an empty state titled "No leave requests".
  </Step>
</Steps>

### Cancelling a request

You can cancel a request only while it is still **Pending**:

1. Find the pending request in the Leave Requests list.
2. Click **Cancel** in the Actions column.

Once a request is approved, rejected, or cancelled, you can no longer change it.

## For Employers: Approving Leave

The employer review screen is titled **Leave Requests**. For the full walkthrough, see [Leave Approvals](/leave-management/leave-approvals). In short:

1. Open the Leave Requests page at `/employer/eor/leave`. It is a queue of requests still awaiting a decision.
2. Click **Approve** on a pending request to approve it. The employee's balance updates automatically (pending days move to used days).
3. Click **Reject** to decline it. A reason is required before you can submit the rejection.

Requests can only be approved or rejected while they are **Pending**.

## How balances are tracked

For employees, the **Leave Balance** page shows a card per core type with **Available**, **Used**, **Pending**, and **Total**. If no policies are assigned to your account yet, India EOR starter balances are shown (12 days each for Casual and Sick Leave; Earned starts at 0).

When you submit a request, the system counts **business days** between your start and end dates, excluding Saturdays and Sundays. A half-day counts as 0.5 days. Overlapping requests are not allowed: if you already have a pending or approved request covering the same dates, a new request for that period is rejected. These rules are detailed in [Leave request rules and limits](/leave-management/leave-rules-and-limits).

## Related

* [Leave Approvals](/leave-management/leave-approvals) - the employer's review and approval screen in detail.
* [Leave Policies](/leave-management/leave-policies) - how employers set allowances, accrual, and carry forward.
* [Leave request rules and limits](/leave-management/leave-rules-and-limits) - the validation rules for every request.