India
Seven days, paid in full by the employer.
Days 1–7 100%
The employer, at full pay.
Casual leave is a separate seven days again, with its own balance and its own approval route.
Leave and absence
Seven days off. Four days charged.
Somebody asks for a week. The weekend inside it is not leave, and neither is the public holiday — but only if the system knows which country's calendar that person is measured against. Ours does, before the request is opened.
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Annual leave · 8–14 October
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countries seeded from their own statute book
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leave types that arrive already set up
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different payers across them, not one
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what Cyprus social insurance pays from the fourth sick day
Read from the statutory tables in the product on 15 October 2026. Add a country and its set arrives with it.
The question behind the policy
Who pays for a sick day?
Three countries, the same absence, three different answers — and in two of them the answer changes partway through the week. This is the part a leave policy copied from a template gets wrong, and the part a spreadsheet cannot hold.
Cyprus
Three days on you, then the fund.
Days 1–3 100%
The employer.
Day 4 onward ~60%
The Social Insurance Fund, not you.
Nothing is payable until the person has six months of service.
Greece
Half pay first, then EFKA.
Days 1–3 50%
The employer, at half salary.
Day 4 onward EFKA
The social insurance institution.
How long it runs depends on length of service, so there is no single annual figure to quote — and we do not invent one.
These are the statutory defaults the product ships with, not legal advice. Your own policy sits on top of them and can be more generous in any direction.
The request
The balance is on the request.
Decided with the numbers in view.
An employee sees what they have, what they have taken and what is left before they ask. Whoever decides sees the same figures, and what saying yes would leave behind.
- Balances deduct on approval, not on request
- A request reaches a manager, or an administrator where none is set
- The reason somebody gave is not readable by the rest of the company
LeaveEH
October 14 of 20 days remaining
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Day one
It starts where the law does.
A new company is not set up with an empty leave screen and a link to the handbook. It arrives with the statutory types for its country already there, with the right number of days, the right carry-forward rule and the right answer about who pays. Then you change whatever you want.
India
Earned leave 21 days
Carry forward up to 45
Encashable Yes
Sick · casual 7 + 7
Cyprus
Annual leave 20 days
On a five-day week Statutory
Paternity 14 days
Carers · force majeure Unpaid
Greece
First calendar year 20 days
Second year 21 days
Third year onward 22 days
First year accrues 2 a month
Before you ask
The practical questions.
Can people take half days?
Yes, and a half day is charged as half a day against the balance rather than rounded up. Where a company charges a half day for a late arrival, that lands in the same place and comes out of the same entitlement.
What happens to unused days at the end of the year?
Carry-forward is set per leave type, with a cap where you want one — India's earned leave ships with a cap of forty-five days because that is what the law contemplates, and Cyprus ships with none. What is carried is recorded as its own line, so next year's balance can be explained rather than just asserted.
Who can read the reason somebody gave?
The person who wrote it, their manager and an administrator. Not the rest of the company, and not a colleague looking at the team calendar — they see that somebody is away, not why. That is enforced in the database rather than by what a screen chooses to display.
We have offices in two countries. Do we run two systems?
No. One account, with each company's own holidays, working week and leave types. Someone moving between them keeps one record, and is measured against the calendar of wherever they now sit.
Our opening balances are a mess. Can you take them?
We import them from a spreadsheet and show you the before and after rather than inventing a starting point. A leave balance that is wrong by two days is worse than no system at all, so this is the step we spend the most time on.
Bring the awkward one
Bring your leave policy.
The messier it is, the more useful the half hour. We would rather find the rule we cannot model while you are still deciding than after you have moved everybody onto it.
Things people bring us
Carry-forward with a capAnd the argument about whether it expires in March or December.
Probation and pro-ratingA joiner in September does not get a full year's allowance.
Types somebody invented in 2019Nobody has retired them and two people still use one.
The rule you think is unusualIt is usually not. When it is, we will say so rather than promise it.