An employee requests Friday and Monday leave around a weekend. The system must resolve whether two or four days are deducted.
India-specific leave policy
Make sandwich-leave treatment explicit, previewable and consistent.
Configure whether intervening weekly offs or holidays count when leave is taken around them, while preserving different policies for different workforce groups.
Representative operating scenario Current boundaries stated clearly
Leave policy previewIllustrative interaction
FriLeave
SatWeekly off
SunWeekly off
MonLeave
Sandwich ruleInclude intervening weekly offs
Resolved deduction4 days
Intervening weekly offs included
Who this page is for
For Indian HR teams that need leave balances and deductions to follow approved sandwich-rule policy rather than manual interpretation.
The operating problem
What usually breaks before the software conversation begins.
Use these symptoms to determine whether the issue is data, policy, ownership, monthly closure or an unsupported product requirement.
01
Managers interpret the same leave pattern differently.
02
Balance corrections are handled after approval or payroll processing.
03
Factory and office staff may follow different rules.
04
Policy history is lost when the rule changes.
A practical operating approach
Resolve the policy first, then automate the cycle.
The exact product setup is validated during discovery and demonstration. The sequence below keeps the rule, owner and downstream result connected.
Define the leave population
Bundle leave types and policies for the workforce groups that follow the same rule.
Configure intervening-day treatment
Set how weekly offs and holidays are handled between requested leave dates.
Preview representative requests
Test the Friday-and-Monday scenario before the policy becomes active.
Retain the effective date
Keep previous balances and requests tied to the policy that was active at the time.
Connected product scope
View the full product The outcome depends on more than one isolated feature.
Review the upstream source, policy resolver, approval path and downstream output together.
Leave Management
Configure eligibility, accrual, balance-year, sandwich, clubbing, carry-forward, comp-off and encashment rules for different employee populations through one policy resolver.
ExplorePolicy Configuration
Configure attendance, leave, payroll, approvals, permissions and notifications around the way your organisation actually works, while keeping every policy scoped, dated and reviewable.
ExploreTime & Attendance
Apply configurable rules to punches, shifts and work patterns, explain why each day resolved as it did, and close exceptions before they become payroll corrections.
ExploreWorkflow Automation
Create structured, conditional workflows for employee changes, requests, letters, payroll inputs and cross-functional HR processes.
Explore
Evaluation questions
Bring this use case into a demo Confirm the exact policy, evidence and product boundary.
The answers below reflect the supplied product source. Customer-specific commitments still require live-product and commercial validation.
Does duoHR support sandwich leave rules?
The consolidated product material explicitly describes sandwich rules, holiday and week-off treatment, blackout periods and clubbing restrictions.
Can the rule differ for factory and office employees?
Yes, when the workforce groups are represented through approved organisational or employment dimensions.
Does duoHR support quarter-day leave?
No. The documented current scope supports full day, first or second half, and hourly leave—not quarter-day leave.
India-specific leave policy
Validate this use case with one real policy or transaction.
Bring a representative employee, location, shift, payroll month or output. We will shape the walkthrough around the exact operating case.