# Leave and sick leave

> Employee guide: request leave, report sick and check your leave balance in the TimeTracking app.

URL: https://timetracking.tech/developers/help/employee/leave-and-sick
Last updated: 2026-10-26

Open **Profile** (Profiel) → **Leave & sick** (Verlof & ziek).

## Request leave

1. Tap **Request leave** (Verlof aanvragen).
2. Choose the type of leave, the first and last day, and add a note if you like.
3. Tap **Send request** (Aanvraag versturen). Your office approves or declines it, and you see the status under your requests.

You can cancel a request that has not started yet.

## Report sick

Tap **Report sick** (Ziek melden). Your office is informed right away. Report back when you are better, the way your office has agreed with you.

## Your balance

**Your balance** (Je saldo) shows per type how many hours you have built up, have taken, and have left.

Some offices give you the whole year on 1 January. Others build it up per month: on the 1st of each month 1/12 of your yearly hours is added, counted from the month you started. Your office picks the method.

In het Nederlands: [verlof en ziekte](https://timetracking.tech/developers/help/nl/werknemer/verlof-en-ziekte).