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Settings: absence types
Settings: absence types
Cescia Vanhout avatar
Written by Cescia Vanhout
Updated over a week ago

As an Admin you can add types of leave yourself.
This can be done via the "settings" - "Absence types".

In this guide you will learn:

How to add an absence type

  • Go to the absence type page

  • Click on the green ADD button

  • The following pop-up will appear

Details of this pop-up

  • Name: the name of the type of leave

  • Description: a description of the type of leave

    An example of the above:
    - Name e.g. additional holidays
    - Description e.g. reduced working hours

  • Never expires: if you check this box, no expiry date will appear for the holiday type.

    An example of this could be the type “Illness”. Please note that for this type the balance does not expire.

  • Color: choose a color that will make the holiday type visible when scheduled.

  • Reporting code: the code of your social secretariat.
    E.g. for illness this is at Liantis 99zz.

  • Allow Negative: this type of leave does not need a balance, e.g. illness, but also overtime (if your employees work on a flexi system).
    The employee can have both negative and positive balances for this type.
    If you check this box, you do not need to add a balance in the user profile. (Click here for more info)

  • Only visible to chefs: if ticked, an employee cannot request this type of holiday themselves. You must add this type of absence for them.
    One example is often “authorised absence”.

  • Balance management: if checked, we will keep track of the balance for this type in the user's profile.

  • Counts as contractual hours: if you tick this, this type counts for the calculation of the contractual hours in a week when calculating overtime, but also for the payroll policy.

    E.g. you have the reduced working hours type; this counts as contractual hours. Your employee normally works 40 hours a week, eight hours a day. When they work four days and get one day of reduced working hours leave, this will be counted as if they had worked 40 hours that week.

  • Show in payroll: when ticked, this type of absence will be visible in the social secretariat overview.
    Please note: you always have to fill in a reporting code for this.

  • Hide in payroll export: this type will not be exported to your social secretariat.

  • Maladie: lorsque vous sélectionnez l'option de marquer une absence comme "maladie", ce type d'absence ne sera pas pris en compte pour le solde de congés dans la vue d'ensemble des utilisateurs.

How to edit an absence type

You can edit a work time type via the pencil symbol next to the relevant work time type.


The following pop-up opens. Make the necessary edits and click “Edit”.

How to remove an absence type

To remove an absence time type, click the bin symbol next to it.


The pop-up below opens and, if you don’t use the work time type anymore, you can click ‘Yes’.

If the absence time type is still in use, you should receive the following warning. You cannot remove the work time type in this case.

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