What is Re-initialization?

Re-initialization is to indicate if the previous year’s leave balance is to be carried forward to next year or not. If this is selected as ‘Yes’, then the previous year’s leave balance will be shown separately under ‘PP Balance’ column. If it is selected as ‘No’, then the ‘PP Balance’ column will be ‘0’ and the ‘Current Balance’ column shows the sum of current year balance and the previous year’s balance.

For example, an employee has 5 days of leave in the previous year and 8 days in the current year. The re-initialization option is selected as ‘Yes’. In this case, after the execution of leave credit scheduler, the employee’s leave balance will be shown as ‘PP Balance = 5’ and ‘Current Balance = 8’.

If the re-initialization option is selected as ‘No’ then the PP Balance will be ‘0’ and current Balance will be 13.

How to use this tab?

Field	Description
Re-Initialize Balance every year	This is to specify whether the leave balance has to be re-initialized every year. Select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. If this option is selected as ‘Yes’ then, the number of days will be deducted from the current, previous, and next year’s leave balances as per leave availed dates. If this option is selected as ‘No’ then, the number of days will be deducted only from the current leave balance.
Previous Year Negative Balance Allowed	Select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. This is to specify whether Previous Year negative balance is allowed for the Leave type or not.
Current Year Negative Balance Allowed	Select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. This is to specify whether current year negative balance is allowed for the Leave type or not.
Next Year Negative Balance Allowed	Select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. This is to specify whether Next Year Negative Balance is Allowed for the Leave type or not.
Note: When the Negative balance allowed is set as ‘Yes’ for current/past/future period), then the maximum number of negative days allowed can be configured for that particular period.

If the Negative Balance Allowed option is selected as ‘No’ then the employee will not be allowed to raise leave request if the available Leave balance is zero or equal to ‘Leave pending for approval’.