The Leave Workflow allows you to set up a user-defined sequence of steps by which leave is processed in your organization.  The Leave Work flow starts at the Employee (request for leave) and ends at HR (final processing in the Leave module).

Work flows can be:

1. Set up for all leave types or for a specific leave type.  
2. Based on reporting relationships or job roles.  If the latter is used, then any employee in the specified job role can be in the approval process  these employees need not have any special privileges.
3. Set up for all countries, departments, leave types or for a specified criteria.

How it works: 

• Once an employee’s leave request is sent to the workflow, the workflow processor attempts to find the appropriate workflow for processing.  Once found, the employee’s leave request is then sent through the consecutive sequence of required approvals as defined in the workflow stages.

If a Workflow is not used, then the leave process is as follows:

1. Employee sends leave request;
2. HR (employees with HR access) views Leave Requests via Benefits>>Leave>>Leave Transactions>>Self Service Leave Requests.
3. HR updates the HRplus database (with the leave request) by clicking the Update HR button.  The updated leave request is accessed via Benefits>>Leave>>Leave Transactions.
4. HR posts the leave request (Benefits>>Leave>>Leave Transactions) and the system updates the employee’s leave entitlements (Benefits>>Leave>>View Leave Entitlements).