# Leave items

Leave items are used to define the types and amount of leave that have been accrued, have been taken or which are owing to employees. The same leave items are specified in a pay run for each employee when leave is taken or accrued in a pay run.

The following can be said about Leave items:

- Each employee may be assigned any number of Leave items
- A Leave item cannot be assigned more than once to a single employee
- An employee’s Leave items determine how much of each type of leave is currently owed to that employee
- Each pay run contains a list of Leave items per employee that determines how much of each type of leave is being accrued or taken for that pay run
- Each Leave item specifies how that leave should accrue and the conditions under which it should accrue or can be taken