Weekends and holidays inside a leave request

Each leave type decides what happens to non-working days that fall inside a request:

• Exclude — weekends and holidays inside the range are not deducted. Friday to Monday costs two days.
• Include — every calendar day in the range is deducted. Friday to Monday costs four.
• Sandwich — a non-working day is deducted only when there is leave on both sides of it. Friday and Monday off means the weekend is deducted too, so four days; Friday alone costs one.

This is the single most common source of disputes about leave, because the arithmetic is invisible until the balance changes.

The apply screen shows the cost before submission, day by day, naming the rule that produced it. An employee who can see that the weekend was counted, and why, does not need to raise a ticket about it.