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Who can approve leave and how are they notified?
Who can approve leave and how are they notified?

Holiday approval settings and permissions within Breathe

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Written by Hayden
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Who, within your team, can review, approve and reject your peoples leave requests?

Holiday approver:

Firstly, those that are assigned as a users holiday approver, will be able to manage those that they have had assigned to them.

Below is a tutorial on how to assign someone as a holiday approver for a user:

Please note: You can only assign one person as a Holiday approver.

Secondary approvers:

Secondly, Line managers, HR users and the Admin of the account will be able to review, approve and reject leave also. This will show up under the 'To review and approve: Open leave requests' section of the HR dashboard as seen below:

If the user requesting the leave already has a holiday approver these notifications will not show up on the HR dashboard. These will need to be viewed by:

  • Following the pathway: Reports > Outstanding Leave Requests

  • Going to the leave tab on the users profile

Please note: Line managers will only be able to view the leave requests of the people that they have been assigned to manage.

How will they be notified?

Holiday approvers will be notified via an email notification as well as a notification on their manager dashboard if they are a Line manager, HR user or an Admin.

Please note: You are only able to have one user notified of a leave request, this cannot be assigned to multiple people.

Line managers, HR users and the Admin will have to view these via:

  • Following the pathway: Reports > Outstanding Leave Requests

  • Going to the leave tab on the user's profile

Can leave be self approved?

Yes this is possible. For Line managers/standard users this feature can be found by following the below tutorial:

This will have to be done for each individual.

For HR users and the Admin, this can be found by following the below tutorial:

This will enable all users with HR or Admin permissions to have self-approving leave.

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