Approvers

Approvers are specific employees, typically in management roles, that will approve time and leave for each department. Until you select approvers for a department, time and leave requests for that department are approved automatically. To ensure that no departments are left without approvers assigned, it is recommended that you configure each available department in order.

While you are selecting approvers, you can also set up employee exceptions for employees whose time or leave should be approved by someone other than the majority department approver. For example, you can set up an exception for a manager whose time should be approved by another manager above them.

If you need to temporarily extend approver permissions to another user (for example, to cover duties while an approver is on vacation), you can set them up as an approval delegate in the Approvals module. For more information, refer to the user topic Approvals module.

Selecting time and leave approvers

To select approvers, follow these steps:

Tip:  This page saves your changes automatically.

1. From the main menu, select Setup > Approvers.

2. Complete the following fields: 

   Field	Description
   Department	Select a department to assign approvers for. The list of departments is brought into HRISMyWay from iCity during synchronization.
   Time Approver	Select a user to approve time for the selected department.
   Leave Approver	Select a user to approve leave for the selected department. If you want the user selected for time approval to also approve leave, select Use Time Approver.

3. If you need to set up an employee exception in the selected department, follow these steps: 

   1. Complete the following fields: 

      Field	Description
      Employee	Select an employee whose time and leave should be approved by users other than the department's majority approvers.
      Time Approver	Select a user to approve time for the selected employee.
      Leave Approver	Select a user to approve leave for the selected employee. If you want the user selected for time approval to also approve leave, select Use Time Approver.

   2. To set up another employee exception, repeat step a.
4. To select approvers for another department, repeat steps 2–3.