Hey @Volvic 

To answer both questions, as mentioned in our helpcenter article on Absence type categories our absence categories have a limited functional impact on the creation and management of absences. Even for the absence categories Unpaid vacation and Unexcused absence (unpaid), they currently have no effect on the fixed salary or other salary components. 

Therefore you can choose to use whichever category is nearest the desired option for the above instances. If you have ideas for other useful categories, I would kindly ask for you to input them into our Ideation Area. 

Please let me know if you have any other questions

Best,

Conor

Thanks Eoin, appreciate the explanation. I’ll share in the ideation area. I understand now that there is no effect on salary but the information is still incorrect as the unpaid leave absence may or may not be unexcused. 

For unpaid sick leave for the employee is the unexcused absence also the recommended category? The only available sick leave category for the employee is noted as paid. 

Thanks. 

Hey @Volvic 

I completely understand your point on that. We only have a select amount of absence categories at the moment and they may not fit every absence type exactly. I appreciate you entering this into our Ideation Area as this is good feedback for our Product Team.

For the unpaid leave, the option I would recommend to use would be the unpaid vacation and for the sick leave you could then use the unexcused absence. 

I am happy to assist in any other questions you may have.

Best,

Conor

Hi there,

one question on the unpaid vacation category and payroll:   If the employee has unpaid vacation will there be no hours added to payroll for this time period?  We have this rarely but sometimes when working students prepare for their degree exams.

Thanks,

 Linda

Hi @Linda,

In fact, the absence categories Unpaid vacation and Unexcused absence (unpaid) currently have no effect on the fixed salary or other salary components. 

Thanks for your question and let me know if I can help further. 

Best,

Steve

Hi, I just would like to comment here, a bit related, that it’s quite annoying that the absence categories of unpaid leaves have no effect on the salary. I really hope that this will be soon updated to be more logic. Also, this explanation is not very helpful in the related help center article:

→ No idea what those “different functionalities” might be if not salary… 

Kind regards,

Anna