Additional Options in Leave Service

General Sandwich Leave Policy

A Sandwich Leave Policy counts non-working days such as weekends or holidays as leave when they fall between leave days. If an employee takes leave before and after a non-working day, that day can also be counted as leave based on your policy configuration.

To enable leave sandwich rules for specific leave policy, refer to Sandwich leave policy.

1. Navigate to Settings > Leave > Configuration > Additional Options.
   
   
   
2. Enable Sandwich leave policy.
   
3. Choose whether to include or exclude weekends and holidays, set the maximum allowed leave days, and define whether calendar days or business days apply to the sandwich leave policy.
   
   
   Include: When Include is selected, weekends and holidays falling between leave days are counted as leave if the leave duration exceeds the configured limit.

   Exclude: When Exclude is selected, weekends and holidays falling between leave days are not counted as leave if the leave duration exceeds the configured limit. 

   Calendar days: Counts employee’s leave based on all calendar days, including weekends and holidays.

   Business days: Counts employee's leave based on working days, weekends and holidays are not counted as leave.
4. Select the applicable leave policies.
   
   

   For the exclude option, if the leave taken is less than the configured limit, weekends and holidays will be sandwiched. Otherwise, they will be excluded.
   
Examples - Sandwich Leave Policy
(i) Example – Include Option (Calendar days)
Scenario:

Maximum allowed leave days: 2
Leave applied: Friday and Monday

Total leave counted: 4 days (Friday–Monday)
Saturday and Sunday fall in between




Outcome:
Since the leave duration exceeds the configured limit, Saturday and Sunday are counted as leave days.




In the above example, when Business Days is selected, only working days are counted. Saturday Sunday, and holidays are excluded, resulting in 2 leave days (Friday and Monday). In this case, weekends are not sandwiched.


(ii) Example – Exclude Option (Calendar days)
Scenario:


Maximum allowed leave days: 5
Leave applied: Friday and Tuesday
Total leave counted: 6 days (Friday–Tuesday)
Saturday and Sunday fall in between




Outcome:
Since the leave duration exceeds the configured limit, Saturday and Sunday are excluded from leave.




For Exclude Weekends configuration, weekends will be sandwiched if the leave duration is less than 5 days. For instance, leave applied from Friday to Monday is counted as 4 days. As this is below the 5-day limit, the weekends will be sandwiched.



5. Auto-reverse sandwiched weekends and holidays when associated absences are converted to attendance entry
   Enable this option to automatically revert weekends and holidays that were sandwiched when the related absences are later converted into attendance entries, On-duty, or Regularized.
   Auto-Reverse Sandwich Rule – Example Scenario

   Sandwich rule: Include weekends and holidays when the leave period exceeds 2 calendar days.
   
   

   Example
   
   

   For instance, an employee:

   1. Friday → Absent
   2. Saturday & Sunday → Marked as absent (sandwiched based on policy)
   3. Monday → Absent

   Later Friday is corrected to Attendance entry / On-duty / Regularized 

   
   With auto reverse setting enabled:

   Saturday & Sunday will automatically revert to Weekend / Holiday (non-absent)
   
   

   If auto reverse setting disabled:

   Even if Friday  is corrected as attendance entry, Saturday and Sunday will remain marked as absent.
   
   

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Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 Calendar integration

Specify the leave display format for synced leaves and set the calendar event status for each leave type.