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title: "Deleting and restoring leave profiles"
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description: "Understand Work Profiles for managing Leave & Sickness settings, employee hours, and allowances in Cintra People HR. Customise for diverse employment terms."
updated: 2026-07-23T15:19:51Z
published: 2026-07-23T15:19:51Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/deleting-and-restoring-work-profiles"
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# Deleting and restoring leave profiles

Who can do this:

**HR Manager**

**Administrator**

> [!WARNING]
> **Important!**
> 
> **Work profiles** have been renamed as **leave profiles**. The working rota functionality previously configured here has moved to the new **work patterns** feature; everything relating to leave, sickness, and entitlements remains unchanged and stays in leave profiles. See [Guide: Work patterns](/hr/docs/guide-work-patterns) for the new feature, or [Guide: Leave profiles](/hr/docs/guide-leave-profiles) for what's changed.

### **Delete a leave profile**

You can delete unwanted or unused leave profiles if they have no employees associated with them. Leave profiles with no employees can be found with the **Unassigned** toggle.

Go to **Leave > Admin & Config > Leave Profiles** and select the leave profile you wish to delete.

Click the **Employees** tab to check there are no users still associated with it. If there is, you will need to change the employees' leave profile. See [How do I change an employee’s leave profile?](/hr/docs/how-do-i-change-an-employees-work-profile)

Once the leave profile has no employees, you can click **Delete**, then confirm.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image-OMHT18AD.png)

### **Restoring a leave profile**

Deleted leave profiles will show if you toggle the view, this will allow you to restore previously deleted leave profiles if you need.

Go to **Leave > Admin & Config > Leave Profiles** and change the view to Deleted.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image(125).png)

Click the **Restore** button on the right-hand side of the leave profile you wish to restore, then **Yes** to confirm.