Skip to main content
30-day free trial. No payment required. Start free
sikabooks Help Center
Human Resources · Guide 5

Leave and Working Calendar

HR seeds configurable Ghana-oriented defaults: 15 paid working days of annual leave, 12 paid weeks of maternity leave with certified extensions, certificate-supported sick leave, and unpaid leave. Administrators may add custom paid or unpaid types.

  • HR administrators and managers
  • Updated

In this guide

Working-day calculations use the configured work week and the annually reviewed public-holiday calendar. Review seeded holidays before relying on them, especially when government observance dates change.

A leave request records the employee, leave type, dates, computed units, reason, evidence, approvers, decisions, and balance effect. Approval posts immutable leave-ledger entries. Rejection records the decision without consuming balance. Cancellation reverses the approved effect with a new ledger entry instead of rewriting history.

When multiple approval steps are configured, each approval advances the request until the final decision posts the balance. Evidence-required leave cannot be submitted without an accepted supporting file.

Mobile HR Review

Open Human Resources in the mobile app to use the HR workspaces available to your role. HR needs an internet connection; it does not queue private records or decisions offline. Review the employee, dates, evidence and balance before submitting a decision. After final approval is a projection, not a balance deduction by an intermediate approver. Completed requests show the current balance and actual posted leave units, not a reconstructed historical balance.

If the working calendar or another reviewed record changes, refresh and review again before submitting. Pending leave uses the current working calendar, and any difference from its originally requested units is shown. A holiday change does not rewrite the leave already posted for an approved request.

Use the clear icon to remove an optional date, or remove a newly selected attachment before review. Required dates cannot be cleared. Removing a selected file only removes that pending selection; it does not delete an existing employee document. Protected replacement fields left untouched keep their existing values. Contract versions are rechecked before a superseding draft is created, so refresh if another user has already created a newer version.