Leave Application Formats: Ready-to-Use Templates

Filled-in samples for every common leave application — Earned Leave, Medical Leave, EOL, Extension — with the exact phrasing managers expect, the certificates that need to accompany the form, and how to handle a refusal.

Most leave applications get refused not because the entitlement does not exist but because the application is incomplete: the wrong form, missing certificate, vague justification, no statement of contact during leave. This section provides ready-to-use templates for the leave types employees actually file: Earned Leave, Medical Leave, Extraordinary Leave, Maternity, Paternity, Child Care Leave, and extension applications when an existing leave needs to be prolonged.

Every template here is in plain office English, with the placeholders an employee actually has to fill, the certificates that need to accompany the form, and the phrasing for the justification paragraph. We have separated email format from formal note-sheet format because departments differ in what they accept; both are provided.

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