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Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Steps: Set Up Leave of Absence

Steps: Set Up Leave of Absence

To create position-based leave types, enable multiple jobs functionality in your Workday tenant.
Review setup considerations for leaves of absence.
When you set up leaves of absence, workers can use self-service pages to enter leave of absence requests and view the status of their requests. Managers and administrators can place workers on leave, return workers from leave, and track leave.
  1. Edit Business Processes.
    1. To send leave requests for review and approval, configure these business processes:
      • Request Leave of Absence
      • Request Return from Leave of Absence
    2. (Optional) To dynamically generate editable documents when workers request leave of absence or request return from leave of absence, add a
      Generate Document
       action step to the
      Request Leave of Absence
       or
      Request Return from Leave of Absence
       business process. See Steps: Set Up Document Generation for Absence Business Processes.
  2. Access the
    Maintain Leave Families
     task.
    To set up leave type categories that you can select when entering a leave request and use for tracking, create leave of absence families.
    Example: Create a leave family named:
    • Company Leave for disability and bereavement leave.
    • Family Leave for maternity and parental care leaves.
    Security:
    Set Up: Leave of Absence
     domain in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
  5. Configure the
    Absence
     dashboard to track absence reports, manager self-service tasks, and analytics.