Leave Terminology

Summary

These terms align Leave documentation with current source while retaining explicit maturity boundaries.

All Leave documentation readers.

Term	Meaning
Leave request	Tenant-scoped employee absence request with type, date range, calculated days, reason, and status
Leave day	A calculated unit within the inclusive range, subject to configured holiday/weekly-off exclusions
Leave type	First-class extracted-service classification with payment and eligibility metadata
Leave policy	Per-type stored calculation/governance settings; several are not yet enforced
Leave balance	Per user, type, and year ledger of stored components plus derived availability
Holiday	Tenant calendar date with a type
Weekly off	Tenant day-of-week calendar configuration
Timeline	Business/audit records stored for Leave operations; not exposed in the current UI
Compatibility route	Contract retained for monolith/client parity while ownership transitions
Employee projection	Leave-local employee context synchronized from Employee events
Workflow-managed decision	Optional decision path delegated to Workflow and completed through callback
Outbox	Transactional store used before asynchronous publication
Transitional	Coexisting or incomplete ownership/behavior that needs explicit validation