Your leave

My leave shows your leave at a glance: the days you have, your requests and where each one has got to, the holidays and leave coming up, and who in your team is away.

Who can see their own leave and withdraw their own requests: every member, for themselves.

Open the menu and select Work → Leave. The page opens on My leave. To ask for time off, select Request leave at the top of the page: see Ask for leave.

The day before a holiday

When your next working day is a public holiday for you, a note at the top of the page says so, for example “Tomorrow is Independence Day”. On a Friday before a Monday holiday it names the Monday. Select the cross to hide the note for the rest of your visit.

A holiday is shown only if it applies to you. Some holidays are for one state or one workplace, and Cadre knows where you work.

Your balances

There is a card for each type of leave you use up over the year, such as annual, sick and compassionate leave. Each card says:

How many days are available, for example “12.5 days available”. Days you have asked for but are still waiting on are already taken off. A negative number has a minus sign.
Of how many this year, your allowance for the leave year.
A bar of the days taken, the days awaiting approval (striped) and the days available, with the numbers written under it.
What comes next, for example “1.67 more on 31 Oct” when your leave builds up month by month, or “3 carried over expire 31 Mar” when days you brought forward from last year must be used by a date.

If you have no days yet, the card says why instead of showing a zero, for example that your leave builds up monthly and when the first days arrive.

If you have not worked for your employer long enough to take a type of leave yet, the card says Can be taken from and the date.

Other leave

Other leave lists the leave you take when you need it rather than use up over a year, such as maternity, paternity, study and unpaid leave, with your allowance where your employer has set one, for example “Maternity · 16 weeks”.

Your requests

Your requests has two views: Upcoming (waiting for a decision, or approved and not over yet) and Past.

Each request shows its dates, its leave type, how many working days it uses, and where it has got to:

Requested, with the date you asked.
Your relief officer, if you named one: Asked Ada Okeke to cover until they answer, then Ada Okeke accepted to cover, or Ada Okeke can’t cover with their reason.
With the person deciding it: your line manager, their manager while yours is away, or HR.
The decision: Approved or Rejected, with the date. If a request was rejected, the reason is shown under it.

Leave that is over shows as Taken.

When your relief officer declines

If your relief officer can’t cover, you are told why, and the request shows Choose someone else. The request is not refused: it waits, and for some leave types it can’t be approved until someone accepts.

In Your requests, select Choose someone else on the request.
Choose a colleague. The handover note you gave is kept; change it if you want to.
Select Ask them. They are asked to cover, and your first choice is told they are no longer needed.

You can also withdraw the request instead.

Withdraw or cancel a request

You can withdraw a request that is still waiting, or cancel approved leave that has not started yet.

In Your requests, find the request and select Withdraw (waiting) or Cancel (approved).
Confirm with Withdraw or Cancel leave. Select Keep it to change your mind.

Whoever decides your leave is told, and so is your relief officer, who is no longer needed. If the leave was approved, the days go back into your balance. If your leave has already started, ask HR to cancel it.

Covering for a colleague

When a colleague names you as their relief officer, you are told, and the top of your Leave page shows Asks you to cover: who is asking, their dates, the day they are back, their handover note, and the date to answer by. It also says whether you have leave booked those days yourself.

Select Accept to cover for them.
Select Decline…, say Why can’t you cover? (required) and select Decline. Your colleague and the person deciding their leave see your reason, and your colleague is asked to choose someone else. Declining doesn’t refuse their leave: only the person deciding can do that.

Your colleague and the person deciding are told your answer straight away. You can only answer while their request is waiting for a decision.

If you don’t answer in time, the person deciding may approve the leave without your answer.

You’re covering lists the leave you accepted to cover: coming up, under way, and finished in the last two months (Done). If the leave is withdrawn, not approved or cancelled, or your colleague asks someone else, you are told and it leaves the list.

As everywhere in Cadre, a colleague’s leave other than annual leave just shows as Away.

Coming up

Coming up lists your holidays and your own leave for the next three months, soonest first. For your leave it says how many days it uses and the day you are back at work. A holiday the Government moved from a weekend says which day it replaces.

Away in your team

Away in your team lists who is on approved leave in the next two weeks. Your team is:

the people who share your manager,
your manager, and
the people who report to you.

Annual leave is named. For any other kind of leave, such as sick or compassionate leave, a colleague just shows as Away: why someone is off is theirs to share. If someone reports to you, you see their type of leave. When a relief officer has accepted to cover approved leave, it says who, for example “covered by Ada Okeke”.

Select Team calendar to see the whole month: see Your team’s calendar.