How To: Leave Request

How to Leave Request 

Overview

In this guide, you will learn how to access and make a leave request in self-service. Follow the instructions carefully, and use the troubleshooting section at the end if you encounter any issues. Attached to this guide you may find a document that goes more in depth.

Step 1: Navigate to Self-Service

• Navigate to Self-Service either through the Self-service card on myNIC or directly to it with https://selfservice.nic.bc.ca/

Step 2: Navigate to Employee

•  After entering Self-Service, you will be taken to a page with a variety of options, you are looking for the 'Employee' category

Step 3: Navigate to Leave

•  Inside of the Employee category you will find an 'Leave' option. This will bring you to a page with a history of your leave requests and a list of all of your available leave types and their balances

Step 4: Making a request

• Near the top right side of the page there is a blue 'Request Leave' button, use that to navigate to the request leave page
• Select which type of leave you are requesting, along with the start date and end date of your leave request. Once you have entered the start date and end date, you will see a calendar view appear. You then use this calendar view to fill in the hours requested for each day that you are requesting leave
• click on ‘Comments’ to add a description of your leave request, that will be viewable by you and your supervisor. NOTE: Human Resources requires that you add a comment explaining your leave for any family illness, special leave, or unpaid leave request.
  Click ‘Submit’ to submit your leave request to your supervisor.