Employee Enters

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Employee Enters Individual Time Off Award
EmpowHR ESS Version 9.0
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• Guidelines
• Employees may request awards for other employees.
  An Employee may not request an award for
  him/herself.
• Maximum Time Off Award an employee may request
  for another employee is ten hours.
• Time Off Awards over ten hours must be approved
  by the second level supervisor of the recipient
  employee.
• Monetary awards are approved by the supervisor of
  the employee who requested the awards except when
  the recipient of the awards is the award
  requesters supervisor.
• Then the award recipients supervisor must
  approve the award.
• 5. Only supervisors are authorized to
  request/approve rating based awards. Employees
  are not to request rating based awards via ESS.

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Select Employee Self Service
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Select Awards located under Tasks
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Enter the applicable search criteria. Its
easiest to Search by EmplID.
OR, you can enter agency (CE or FA), state (VA),
and Last Name to search for an individual employee
Click the search button.
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Using the drop down arrow, select the type of
award being requested
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Enter the time period covered by the award
Enter the number of hours being requested for
the time off award. NOTE The maximum number of
hours that an employee may request for another
employee is 10.0 hours.
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Enter the full justification for the award being
requested. A Justification is required. NOTE
It is recommended that you type in Word and than
copy and Paste into EmpowHR.
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Dont forget to click the SAVE button!
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You should receive a message that the award
request has successfully saved and is being sent
to your Supervisor for review. CLICK OK.
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Click on create printable award to print a hard
copy document if needed.
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Click on view printable award.
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Read the message and click Open
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To exit the document, click On the X.
Click File then click Print or click the
Print icon
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To return to the search options for
entering Additional award requests, click on
the awards button.
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Repeat steps in previous slides to enter
additional award requests.