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Leave in OnTime runs the same way as everything else: a policy defines what is possible, a balance tracks what is left, a request is filed and approved by a person, and the result rewrites the affected day records.

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The lifecycle

Every step is covered by its own page:

Types & policies

Defining the leave types your organization offers.

Balances & accrual

How balances are credited, carried forward and topped up.

Applying

Filing a request — and filing one on someone’s behalf.

Approving

The queue, the decision, and what changes when you approve.

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What a request consumes

The working days in a range, not the calendar days. Weekly offs and dates on the organization’s holiday calendar are excluded, so a Friday-to-Monday request over a weekend is two days, not four. Before submitting, the employee sees exactly this: how many working days the range comes to, how many weekend days and holidays were excluded, and what their balance will be afterwards.

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Half days

A leave type can allow half days. When it does, a request can be marked as a first half or a second half, and the affected date reconciles to Half rather than Leave. Whether a day of leave is still paid is a property of the leave type. Loss of Pay is the unpaid one — a day of LOP produces a day record that payroll counts against pay rather than toward it.
Paidness is set on the leave type in your organization’s data, but the leave-policies screen does not currently expose it as an editable field. Ask your OnTime contact if you need a type’s paid status changed.

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Approval depends on the type

Some leave types need only the employee’s manager. Others need a second approval from HR. This is configured per leave type — not per employee, not by number of days. The employee is told which chain applies before they submit. See How approvals work for the shared rules on scope, two-step chains and the same-actor restriction.

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Comp-off

Comp-off is an ordinary leave type with an unusual source: instead of accruing on a schedule, it is credited when an employee’s approved overtime falls on a holiday or on their weekly off. See Overtime.