Approval rights for requests

These user types have the following rights to approve requests:

	Employee	Supervisor	Admin
Own requests
Vacation requests	❌	❌	✅
Absence requests, overtime, and compensatory time off	❌	❌	✅
Change requests for time entries	❌	❌	✅
Requests from own employees
Vacation requests	❌	✅ / ✏️ (1)	✅
Absence requests, overtime, and compensatory time off	❌	✅ / ✏️ (1)	✅
Change requests for time entries	❌	✅ / ✏️ (1)	✅
Requests from employees of other supervisors
Vacation requests	❌	❌	✅
Absence requests, overtime, and compensatory time off	❌	❌	✅
Change requests for time entries	❌	❌	✅
Requests as a delegate during the supervisor’s absence
Vacation requests	❌	✅ / ✏️ (2)	✅
Absence requests, overtime, and compensatory time off	❌	✅ / ✏️ (2)	✅
Change requests for time entries	❌	❌	✅

Legend

✅ Approval rights ❌ No approval rights ✅ / ✏️ Approval rights by default / approval rights can be restricted

(1) An admin can restrict supervisors’ approval of requests:

Forbid supervisors from approving requests (the Supervisors may approve requests option in the Global settings).
Set a time restriction for deleting vacation requests (the Supervisor may delete / cancel past vacation requests and Supervisor may delete / cancel future vacation requests options in the Global settings).

(2) An admin can disable a delegate’s approval of requests (the Delegates may approve requests option in the Global settings).