Leave Management

In addition to managing and approving daily timesheets, it is also possible to install an Odoo HR application that will manage holidays, leave, and other information related to employee time off. We install Leave Management the same way as the other Odoo applications:

After you have installed the Leave Management application you will have yet another new menu, the Leaves menu. One departure from early additions of Odoo is now Odoo installs many of the HR applications as separate menus. This does lead to having more and more main menus within the Odoo application. Fortunately, the menu automatically collapses down into a drop-down list when there is not enough room to display the menu horizontally across the screen:

The primary purpose of this Leave Management application is to provide an easy mechanism for employees to request leave and for their managers to approve or deny the request.

Creating a leave request

When you click on the Leaves menu option, you are taken to a...