# Employee Perspective
The employee has the ability to request leave from the Leave Portal. The leave history, summary, calendar and leave balance are available for the employee to view.
## Leave Portal
The Leave Portal can be accessed under the Main Menu | Leave.
As seen below, the various sections can be found on the Leave Portal.
Each item will be discussed next.
### 1. Book Leave
Employees needing to apply for leave can book leave themselves and managers can approve the leave submitted by their employees. The process in applying for leave is very intuitive and user-friendly.
Navigate to the **+** Book Leave icon and click on it.
The **+** Book Leave consists of sections. Some sections are informational and others needs to be completed. These sections are:
- Your current available leave balances
- Indicate the type of leave you would like to request
- Leave Details
- Supporting Documentation
#### 1.1 Your current available leave balances
In this section, all leave balances that are applicable to the employee are displayed here:
Each employee will be able to view their own leave balance statement to indicate what transactions have occurred on a specific leave type for a specified period.
The employee's leave balance statement can be viewed by selecting the *View Balance Statement/s* button:
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The employee have the option to export the leave balance summary statement information to either Excel/PDF.
The *Leave Balance Summary Statement* provides a summary of the Leave Balance for the selected leave type for the current leave cycle.
#### 1.2 Indicate the type of leave you would like to request
Here the employee chooses the type of leave he wants to apply for.
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Once the Leave Type is selected, the employee has the option to select the booking type for example, Full day, Half day or Short time
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#### 1.3 Leave Details
Here, the employee specify the leave details such as the reason applying for leave, which date the employee is applying for leave, when the employee will be back at work and who to contact while on leave.
On the right, the employee can see who will be approving the leave applied for.
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#### 1.4 Supporting Documentation
If applying for Sick Leave, Family Responsibility etc., the supporting documentation can be uploaded.
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### 2. My History
Employees needs to have a history of all leave applied for. This can be seen under My History.
The leave history section shows all the employee's leave history and requests which still needs to be actioned.
Leave requests can be viewed or cancelled.
##### 2.1.1 My Leave Balances
The leave balance has the available balance and balance summary for the cycle.
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When selecting the information icon next to each *Leave Balance Summary* item, the information per item is displayed.
##### 2.1.2 Leave Details
The leave details specified by the employee are displayed.
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##### 2.1.3 Request Details
The employee's details who submitted the leave request are displayed.
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##### 2.1.4 Supporting Documentation
Any documentation uploaded as supporting documentations are displayed.
##### 2.1.5 Approval Workflow
The approval details will be displayed in this section as soon as the leave approver approved the leave record.
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##### 2.1.6 Cancel Leave Request
The leave record can be cancelled if required.
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#### 2.2 Leave History
A list of all leave records submitted will be displayed in a list format. Details can be seen by opening a record.
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### 3. My Leave Summary
A summary is available for the employee in order for them to have a view of changes made to their leave balances.
A leave balance summary for each leave type is displayed, with a description for each item when selecting the information icon:
- *Total Entitlement:* The total amount of leave an employee is entitled to for the current leave cycle. This amount is determined by the assigned leave group and its configuration.
- *Approved Past and Current Records:* This is the sum of all an employee's leave which has already taken place (today and dates in the past), and which has been approved for the current cycle. A leave record is treated as a unit and once the leave record's start date has been reached, all days in the leave record will show as approved and taken.
- *Other Adjustments:* The correction applied to an employee's leave balance for the current leave cycle. This can be a result of the manual adjustment loaded by a leave administrator or automatic adjustments created by the system according to the rules of the assigned leave group.
- *Approved Future Records:* This is the sum of all of an employee's leave which will take place on a future date, and which has already been approved for the current cycle.
- *Leave Days Awaiting Approval: This is the sum of all of an employee's open leave requests (those which have not yet been approved), both past and future dated falling within the current cycle.
- *Total Forfeited:* The total amount of leave forfeited for the current cycle.
- *Leave Balance Summary For Cycle:* Employee's available balance for the leave type's current cycle: Available Balance = Total Entitlement + Adjustments - (Leave Approved and Already Taken + Leave Approved and Not Yet Taken + Leave Awaiting Approval)
The employee's leave balance statement can be viewed by selecting the *View Balance Statement/s* button, as discussed under the *"Your current available leave balances"* section above.
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### 4. My Leave Calendar
A full year calendar is available showing all public holidays and leave that are booked.
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### 5. What will my balance be on...
Running future leave in order to see what the leave balance will be on a certain date.
The employee is able to run future leave in order to see what his balance will be on a specified date.
The following search criteria must be completed:
- Leave balances to be calculated for date
- Leave type
A description is provided for the following items:
- *Total Entitlement:* The total amount of leave an employee is entitled to for a specific leave cycle. This amount is determined by the assigned leave group and its configuration.
- *Pending Changes:* The changes that will occur at a future date and is calculated as: Accruals + Adjustments - Leave Records + Forfeits
### 6. Who's on leave
A view to enable an employee to see other employees who is on leave.
An employee is able to see who is on leave per month and day.
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