We need a way to exclude protected leave types, such as sick leave, FMLA, and bereavement, from our time-off auto-approval threshold calculations.

Currently, all time-off requests count toward the configured threshold. This means that a protected leave request can consume part of the approval quota and cause a subsequent PTO request to be denied, even though protected leave should not reduce PTO availability.

For example, if someone takes sick leave, that request should not count against the number of PTO requests that can be auto-approved.