Process Considerations:

• For managers to access this information from the Time and Absence MSS Dashboard, see KB Managing the Time and Absence MSS Dashboard in HRS
• Newly submitted time must be processed by a Time Administration stream in order for the time to be moved into 'Needs Approval' status. Time Admin runs every day at 4AM, 6:15AM, 9AM, 11AM, 1PM, 3PM & 8PM.

You may click on the links below to navigate directly to a section:

Instructions

1. Payroll coordinators will navigate to Manager Self Service > Time Management > Approve Time and Exceptions > Approve Payable Time.
2. Enter Group ID, Empl ID, employee Last Name/First Name, Business Unit, Job Code, Department, Workgroup, or any combination of the selection criteria. Please see user procedure Employee Search Options in HRS for more information regarding group look ups.
   
   As a Best Practice, use only the Group ID
   
   
3. when selecting employees with payable time to be approved. Using numerous selection criteria can result in some employees with payable time to approve being inadvertently filtered out of the selection results.
4. Enter the Start and End Dates for the period you wish to review. Reminder---you should also check prior periods for any time that you may have adjusted from a previous pay period. You may remove either the start date or both the start and end dates to view payable time for all periods.
5. Click Get Employees.
   
   
   
   
6. Depending on your selection criteria, one employee or a list of employees will appear below. In the example below, a search for Group ID C193519 employees with payable time that needs approval in the period 09/04/2016-09/17/2016 results in three employees.
   
   
   
   Note: Only employees with payable time to approve will appear in the search results, if no employees have payable time to approve, then no employees will be shown in the search results.
   
   
7. Select an employee by clicking on the employee's Last Name hyperlink.
8. You are then taken to the Approve Payable Time details page.
   
   
   
   
9. Within the Approve Payable Time Details page, if there are more than ten rows, click View All. This allows you to see all time details for the selected period. (Note: The Accounting Date field is not used. If a date is entered in this field, it is ignored.)
10. If there is a question about the time, click the Adjust Reported Time hyperlink. The employee's timesheet is opened in a new window.
11. Make adjustments or corrections to the timesheet. Please see Making Timesheet Adjustments in HRS </> for more information on adjusting timesheets.
12. Click Submit to save the changes.
13. After changes are made in the timesheet, you may return to the payable time page by closing the timesheet tab.
    
    
    
    
14. The changes will not be available to approve until the Time Administration processes again (4a, 6:15a, 9a, 11a, 1p, 3p & 8p).
15. You may wait until the next Time Administration run to approve the time or continue with the approval of the time that is correct. To exit the employee and continue with the next employee if a group search was done, select the Previous or Next Employee hyperlink or the Return to Approval Summary hyperlink.
    
    
    
    
16. If you want to wait to approve the payable time, do nothing and go to the next employee.
17. If you made changes on the timesheet for some of the time but not all of it and you want to approve the time that is correct, you can select each day's time that you want to approve by clicking on the Select box next to the day. In the example below, the approver has selected two days of payable time to approve. (Note: The Accounting Date field is not used. If a date is entered in this field, it is ignored.)
    
    
    
    
18. If there are no adjustments to be made to the employee's time, click Select All. All rows are selected. In the example below, the approver has selected all the dates to approve all the payable time. (Note: The Accounting Date field is not used. If a date is entered in this field, it is ignored.)
    
    
    
    
19. Click Approve. You receive the pop-up window with the following message:
    
    
    
    Press Yes to Approve (or press No to not save the approval).
20. If you click Yes, you receive a Save Confirmation message that The Save was successful.
    
    
    
    
21. Click OK to confirm the Save message.
22. You are returned to the Approve Payable Time details page.
23. If there is no more payable time to approve, you are finished. If there is other payable time to approve, continue with the next employee if a group search was done by selecting the Next Employee or Previous Employee hyperlink or the Return to Approval Summary hyperlink.
    
    
    
    
24. There is an additional option available other than Approve when reviewing payable time. There is also Deny. In most cases this option is not needed and any adjustments to an employee's timesheet can be made by the manager. (note: It is very important to always communicate with the employee when making any adjustments to their timesheet)
    
    This is used when the payable time should not be approved, such as when the employee accidentally submitted their time on the wrong day. The expectation is that no payable time on that day should be processed for the employee to be approved.
    
    The Deny option does not need to be used when the employee's timesheet is updated by the manager.
25. Once the time is removed from the employee's timesheet, the next time that the Time Administration job runs, the payable time requiring approval will no longer appear on the Approve Payable Time page.

Adjusting Time in the Current Time Period

If time has been approved and then a change is made to the employee's time, the updated time will create adjustments in payable time after Time Administration runs, which must be approved. The adjusted time may show as positive and/or negative numbers, depending on the adjustment that was made.

• In the examples below, two hours per day are approved. Then time on one day is changed to four hours, and time on another day is changed to one hour. The changed times appear in Approve Payable Time details for the amounts of the change and must be approved.

Original payable time to approve:

• Changes are made in the timesheet: time for one day changed to four hours, and time on another day is changed to one hour:

• Payable time needing approval after changes were made in timesheet and after Time Administration has run:

Approving Time for a Previous Period

After time changes or corrections have been made to a previous pay period and the change has been processed through Time Admin, it is necessary to approve the time. To approve the time for a previous period, on the Approve Payable Time page change the date range to the period when the time correction was made and follow the steps listed above.

Additional Resources

Related KBs:

• Making Timesheet Adjustments in HRS
• Viewing Payable Time in HRS
• Employee Search Options in HRS
• Managing the Time and Absence MSS Dashboard in HRS
• Time and Labor Processing Procedure Timeline in HRS
• Review of Time Administration in HRS

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