Withdrawing or Removing a Leave Request - Payroll Portal

This article shows you how to withdraw or remove a leave request after it has been approved.

Updated: July 2024

Things change and sometimes approved leave must be withdrawn or removed. Luckily we make this easy in our Payroll Portal. 

Info - Blue Block (1)For your records, removed leave remains visible to admins, team leaders and the applicable employee - clearly indicated with the 'Removed' status.

Requested Leave can be removed by:

 ✅ This Team's Team Leaders
 ✅ Any Admin User
 ❌ The Employee Whose Leave It Is
Another Employee


Let's look at an example leave request in the Payroll Portal, to see how to remove this:

Click on the leave request you need to withdraw in the Review Leave Requests page.
Portal2 Admin_WithdrawReviewLeaveLanding

In the Leave Request, navigate to the status buttons which will now only have ‘Remove’ as an option:

Portal2 Admin_Withdraw Leave Prompt

  1. You can use the ‘Review Notes’ area to enter notes on why this leave is removed.  The employee will see this reason with the status update in the Employee’s Payroll Portal. 
  2. Click on the ‘Remove’ button to remove this leave.
  3. A pop-up message will ask you to confirm you want to permanently remove the requested leave.
    1. Click ‘Remove’ to remove the requested leave.
    2. Click ‘Cancel’ to return to this approved leave request. You did not remove this request. It is still there in the approved state as before.
  4. In the Review Leave Requests page, this leave request’s status will show as ‘Removed’. The employee will also see the status change in their Portal, along with Review Notes you entered.

Managing leave is that easy in the Payroll Portal.