See your holiday balance

Your own balance is on the iPhone app. The website has no page for it. The balance is kept in hours, and shown in days as well.

Reading the bar

The bar is your allowance so far. Each part has a label under it:

• Taken: approved holiday on days that have passed.
• Booked: approved holiday still to come.
• Waiting: holiday you have asked for that nobody has answered yet. It is drawn on the bar but not counted in the hours left until it is approved.
• Over: shown only when more has been taken, booked or asked for than there is.

Hours left is what the year has given you so far, plus anything carried over, less taken and booked. Days are those hours divided by the hours a day on your most recent holiday request, or by 8 if you have not asked for one.

The line under the bar

What is under the bar depends on how your holiday builds:

• Contracted hours. A line such as “224h a year”, with the share of the year if you started part-way through, and anything carried over.
• Hours worked. A column for each month of the leave year, growing as your hours are approved, and a line for the pay period under way: This week or This month, with the holiday it has added and the hours it came from.
• Average week. The words “5.6 × your average week”.

How holiday builds up explains the three.

The log

Log lists every dated thing that moved your balance this leave year, newest first. Each line has the hours it added or took and the balance after it, so the top line’s balance is the hours left. Lines you may see:

• a pay period, such as “Week to Sun 12 Oct” or a month’s name, with the hours worked in it;
• This week so far or This month so far, for the period still running;
• a holiday, by its dates, marked “Holiday” or “Holiday · booked”;
• “Entitlement for the year”, or “Entitlement from” a date if you started part-way through;
• “Carried over”, from last year;
• “Brought in”, with a date: what you had in the system your restaurant used before.