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Introduction
By default, only designated users with specific roles and permissions can submit sick leave requests. While this approach ensures that the right people can manage sick leave, assigning the same permissions to regular employees would also grant them access to employee and payroll information that they should not be able to view.
To allow employees to submit their own sick leave requests without granting access to this information, enable the Can employee apply for sick leave from portal setting that allows sick leave applications directly from the portal.
Once submitted, the employee's direct approver, as defined in the organisation chart, will be notified via email, just like a standard leave request.
Solution
To enable the mentioned setting and allow your employees to safely apply for sick leave:
Navigate to Payroll & Leave > Main > Settings, then select Payroll and then Leave in the left sidebar.
Tick the Can employee apply for sick leave from portal checkbox.
Sick leave and Injury leave will show in the Leave Group dropdown in the Apply For Leave modal (NOT in the Apply for Sick Leave modal we discussed here).
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