What is Leave Entitlement?
Leave Entitlement allows you to assign Leave Types to an employee, including total hours and remaining balance. By assigning Leave Types to an employee, you are granting that employee the right to apply for that leave type.
What are Leave Entitlements used for?
Leave Entitlements determine how many leave days an employee is entitled to take during the year.
Adding Leave Entitlements
Adding new Leave Entitlements to Employees happens in the Employees screen.
In Indigo, go to HR > Main > Employees.
Click once on the employee you would like to add a Leave Entitlement for.
Click on the Leave Entitlement tab, followed by the Insert icon. Note: in this screen, you can see the Leave Entitlements already added to the selected employee, including details such as type, total hours and remaining hours of the entitlement.
Click the magnifying glass in the first field under Leave type to search for the desired leave entitlement.
Select the desired leave entitlement and click Ok in the bottom right to continue.
Insert the desired amount of hours under Entitlement (hrs).
Click on Save (✓ icon) to commit changes.
Leave Entitlements are characterised by the following attributes.
Leave type: Description of the leave type to be given to the employee.
Leave entitlement: The number of leave hours the employee is entitled to for this leave type per year.
Leave balance: The number of remaining hours for this leave type until end of year.
Editing an existing Leave Entitlement
To edit an existing entitlement, highlight the leave entitlement by clicking once on the respective row and click the Edit button.
Deleting Leave Entitlements
To delete an existing entitlement highlight the leave entitlement and click on Delete.