Leave Management

The Leave area is where you set up your company's time-off rules and where employees request and track their leave. Use the area switcher at the top of the left-hand menu to open it.

Inside, the menu has two groups:

• Manage — the admin tools for HR: Leave (leave types, periods, holidays, groups, adjustments, and the full employee leave list).
• Personal — what every employee sees: their own Leave (apply and track) and a company-wide Leave Calendar.

A good order to set things up

If you're configuring leave for the first time, work through these in order:

1. Set your leave periods — the yearly cycle leave is counted in.
2. Define your work week and holidays — so leave only counts working days.
3. Create your leave types — Annual, Casual, Medical, and so on.
4. Group employees if some leave types are only for certain people (for example maternity leave).

Then employees can request leave, and you can view balances and approve requests.

All pages in this section

📄️ Leave Periods

A leave period is the yearly cycle that leave is counted in — for most

📄️ Creating Leave Types

A leave type is a category of time off — Annual, Casual, Medical, Paternity,

📄️ Work Week and Holidays

For leave to count correctly, IceHrm needs to know which days are working days

📄️ Leave Groups

A leave group is simply a named set of employees. Groups let you offer a leave

📄️ Leave Adjustments

Sometimes an employee's balance needs a one-off correction — you're importing

📄️ Requesting and Approving Leave

This page covers the everyday flow: an employee requests leave, and a manager or

📄️ Viewing Leave Balances

Everyone can see leave balances — employees see their own, and HR sees everyone's.

📄️ How Leave Is Calculated

IceHrm works out each employee's balance automatically, but it's helpful to

📄️ Notice and Waiting Periods

Two settings help you control when leave can be taken. Both live on the Rules

📄️ Worked Example: Setting Up a Leave Policy

This page walks through modelling a realistic policy end to end, so you can see how

📄️ Worked Example: Multi-Country Policy

Companies that operate in more than one country often need different leave rules