Overview

Employees can use the Time Approval feature to view hours worked data right at the clock or within ETM, mobility, or the Self Service Portal. Upon reviewing this data, employees can approve, reject, or skip this information. The approval status is then recorded on the relevant timesheets.

The hours worked data that is presented to the employee at the clock is aggregated from post-calculation data. In other words, the data is aggregated after pay rules and processing have been applied in Workforce Management, and not just based on raw punch data. The data can be retrieved on a daily or weekly basis depending on how the time approval functionality is configured.

When an employee approves attested time, Workforce Management can recalculate the affected timesheet. The recalculation updates pay rules and authorization to reflect the approved values. The RE_CALC_ON_APPROVAL setting controls the recalculation and supports three values:

• TRUE recalculates the timesheet inline, immediately when the employee approves the time.
• FALSE records the approval without recalculating the timesheet.
• ASYNC records the approval immediately and defers the recalculation to a background job.

When the value is set to ASYNC, the attestation status is set to approved right away, and the recalculation runs later through the Table Driven Employee Date Range Recalculation Task. The ASYNC option helps prevent server resource exhaustion during peak approval periods. Because the recalculation runs in the background, a brief delay occurs between the approval and the completed recalculation.