If the Time Off Requests feature is enabled for your company, employees and supervisors can use it to record and track requests for planned time off. You can request time off for up to 30 dates in one request. The dates of the requested time off can extend up to one year in the future, but they cannot include the date on which the request is made.

After you have submitted a time off request, the person designated by your company to review your time off requests (typically your immediate supervisor) receives an Inbox message notifying him or her of the request. This designated "primary reviewer" can either approve, partially approve, or deny the request. If the request is approved, the requested non-worked hours are automatically applied to your schedule. If it the request is partially approved, you must accept the partial approval before the approved portion will be applied to your schedule. Any hours applied to your schedule as a result of a time off request will be displayed in your Monthly Schedule with the appropriate non-worked earnings code in parentheses.

Both you and the primary reviewer receive an automated message in your Inbox each time you create, modify, or cancel a request and each time the reviewer approves, partially approves, or denies one of your requests. Either you or the reviewer can cancel a time off request at any time, which will also result in Inbox messages being sent. (Depending upon your company's configuration and your own Inbox preferences, you may also receive these time off request messages by e-mail. For more information about Inbox messages, see Viewing Automated Messages.)

When non-worked schedules are applied to your schedule as the result of an approved or partially approved time off request, the new non-worked schedules supersede any existing worked schedules. Even if the approved non-worked time overlaps only a portion of a worked schedule, the worked schedule will be entirely suppressed. If your supervisor expects you to work the non-overlapped portion of your regular work schedule, he or she will have to manually create a worked schedule for that period of time. If an approved and scheduled time off request is later canceled, the non-worked schedules are deleted and any previously existing worked schedules are restored.

The following topics provide instructions for the most common time off request tasks performed by employees: