Time off
Public holidays counted for you, balances checked by the rules.
Leave requests and approvals in the portal or on WhatsApp, a South African set of leave types and accrual rules, public holidays, team calendars and sick notes under the BCEA rules.
andteam
Business account
Leave request
Annual leave · Mon 21 to Fri 25 Dec
- Days
- 4
- Public holiday
- Christmas Day, Fri 25
- Back on
- Mon 28 Dec
- Balance
- 10 → 6 days
- Approver
- Thabo Nkosi
Requesting and approving
The employee picks the leave type, dates and length in the portal or through the concierge. andteam counts the working days, skipping weekends and public holidays, and shows the days, the date they are back, any public holiday by name, who else in the team is off, and the balance before and after. The approver sees the same facts and approves in the portal or the concierge. Nobody approves their own leave.
On WhatsApp, the concierge shows a card built from andteam’s own figures. Only Confirm on that card books it.
Leave types and balances
Leave types are your own list, each with a payroll code. A South African set is provided: annual, sick, family responsibility, maternity, parental, study and unpaid leave. Each country sets the floor, and each company’s policy defaults from its country.
You choose who holds the balances. andteam can hold them, with accrual (annual leave at 1.25 days a month, sick leave at 30 days per 36-month cycle with the first-six-months rule). Or PaySpace holds them, and andteam shows PaySpace’s balance with its as-at date. Either way, andteam counts the working days and is the record of the request.
Sick notes
For sick leave the defaults are the two BCEA rules: more than two consecutive days, or more than two occasions in eight weeks. The employee uploads the certificate in the portal or through the concierge. HR sees the file; managers see only “received” or “outstanding”; payroll never sees it. Every view is logged, and proof files are never read by the AI.