Absence types
Employees request absences under Requests; approvers decide under Admin → Requests (see Requesting and approving absences). Each type of absence counts differently towards the working-time target and the vacation account.
Absence types
Section titled “Absence types”Besides vacation, sick leave, special leave, home office and business trips, Klokk knows parental leave, maternity protection, educational leave, child sick leave and short-time work, plus time off in lieu.
- Target freed: approved vacation, sick leave and the leave types above free the day’s target — no minus hours arise. Half days free half the target.
- Vacation days: only vacation uses vacation days; home office, business trips and special leave never do.
- Time off in lieu: the target of the day stays, the hours taken off come off the time account.
- Display: approved absences show on the respective day in the time overview and on the dashboard.
- Own calendar: under Requests the calendar shows each absence in the colour of its kind — vacation, sickness, home office or business trip, unexcused absence, other — and its status as an icon: a tick for approved, a clock with a dashed border for “awaiting approval”.
- Unexcused absence: a binding working day without a time entry and without an approved or requested absence is booked as unexcused absence the following night; a rejected request does not prevent this. Recording working time for the day later — added, corrected or by bulk entry — removes the booking again. Under Admin → Companies the booking can be turned off or given waiting days (up to 30).
Per company: under Admin → Companies a super admin chooses which types employees can request; vacation and sick leave are always available. The leave form and the REST API offer only these types (/api/v1/me lists them as absence_types). Existing absences of a type switched off are kept and keep their type when edited.