What it is
HRM → Leave Allotments is where a school decides, campus by campus and year by year, how many paid days each leave type is worth. Set a number here for Casual, Sick, Emergency, Short, Death and Paper leave, and every staff member on that campus gets that many days for that year — this is what turns a leave type from an attendance mark into a balance that can run out.
Set allotments
- Go to HRM → Leave Allotments
- Pick the Year — it defaults to the current year
- Pick the Campus — a specific campus, or All campuses to set a default that applies to every campus that does not have its own row for that year
- Enter the days per year for each leave type: Casual, Sick, Emergency, Short, Death, Paper
- Press Save
A campus with its own row for that year always uses its own numbers; All campuses only fills the gap for a campus that was never given one.
How balances are counted
A staff member's balance for a leave type is simple subtraction: the days entered here for that type and year, minus the days already approved against that same type on HRM → Leave Approval for that year. A request still pending a decision, or a rejected one, does not touch the balance — only an approved leave reduces it. A leave type with no allotment row for that staff member's campus, and no All campuses default either, has nothing to subtract from, so no balance can be shown for it.
Where balances show
The Staff on Leave widget, added from Dashboard → Add widgets, is where these balances surface outside the Leave Allotments screen itself: once at least one allotment row exists for the year, its card reads something like "N staff below 2 days" — staff whose remaining balance has run low. Before any allotment is set for that year, the widget has nothing to compute against and shows a dash instead of a number.
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If the screen is missing
If HRM → Leave Allotments does not appear in a staff login's menu, that login does not hold the privilege that shows it. HRM :: Leave Allotments is that privilege; every school's Super Admin already holds it. For any other staff member, the school's own admin grants it by ticking HRM :: Leave Allotments for that login in Admin → Users & Privileges.