Employees and availability
Manage Vacation and Days off
Keep Vacation separate from full-day Days off so scheduling, leave accounting and employee requests use the correct absence type.
1. Choose Vacation or Day off
Vacation is true leave and remains part of leave-hour accounting. Day off is the full-day unavailability family for a generic Day off, Sick leave, Personal and Other reasons.
Settings → Leave Management shows both Vacation and Days off. Manager-created Days off can also be added from an employee profile.
2. Understand how each absence blocks shifts
- Vacation keeps its covered-date and cross-midnight leave behavior.
- A Day off blocks shifts that start on that date. A legitimate overnight shift that started the previous day may finish on the Day off date.
- Work Pattern rest days are automatic and should not be entered again as Days off.
3. Employee requests use the same Time Off model
Approved Vacation requests create Vacation. Approved Day off, Sick, Personal or Other requests create canonical Days off.
An approved Cannot work schedule-change request also creates a Day off for the affected shift date without rewriting the published schedule by itself.
A Day off created from an approved employee request is request-owned and cannot be silently removed from the ordinary manager Day Off controls.