1. Supervisor Approval Instructions- Bi-weekly Payable Time & Absence Requests

2. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
How to log on to My UW-System (Employee Portal)
From UW-Platteville’s homepage, you can click on ‘Faculty and Staff’, then under ‘Quick Links’, click on My UW System (employee portal) or….
Click on ‘Shortcuts’, go to ‘A to Z Index’, click on ‘M’, then select ‘My UW System (Employee Portal)’
Select ‘UW-Platteville’ as your Organization, click ‘Go’
Enter ‘NetID’ and ‘Password’, this will be the same log-in information as your .

3. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
This is what My UW System looks like:

4. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
How to approve my bi-weekly employee’s absence requests and payable time?
Go to the Manager Time And Approval section in My UW System and click on ‘See all approval options’ at the bottom of that section. Once there, click on “Manager Self Service-Time Management”. You may have to log in again with the same username and password as your .

5. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
This is what that screen will look like:
Then click on ‘Approve Time and Exceptions’

6. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
Step One – Check and Fix Exceptions
An exception could mean:
The employee punched his/her time incorrectly (entered in or out on the wrong day or in the wrong in and out box, put PM instead of AM or vice versa, etc.)
It could also mean that the employee worked over 12 hours in one shift. This is legitimate for some employees on campus because of their schedules, but sometimes it can mean the employee entered his/her time wrong, which is why you are given this exception warning and it’s important to double check if you are unsure.

7. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time Request
Choose Group ID by clicking on magnifying glass next to field and choose the Supervisor or Backup Supervisor option depending on who you are approving for. Then click on the ‘Get Employees’ box.

8. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
If zero names appear, then there are currently no exceptions or time administration still needs to run from when the employee entered the information, so please always check this before approving an employee’s timesheet. 
If there are exceptions – you must click on each name and look at what it is telling you. These exceptions have to be cleared before you approve any absences or timesheet entry.
Please note: If there is a “missed punch”, the employee or you will have to fix the timesheet and resubmit. After this is done, you must wait until the next time admin is done running. Time Administration runs at 9am, 11am, 1pm, and 3pm and it usually takes about 45 minutes to run. After it runs, you will be able to go into payable time to approve your employee(s) time.

9. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
Step Two – Review and Approve Payable Time When reviewing payable time, it will only include the hours your employee physically work, not absences. It is important that the hours physically worked, match the hours requested off and equal the employee’s total reported hours. Click on ‘Approve payable time’, then make sure you have the correct ‘Group ID’ for the employees that you want to approve. Once the correct Group ID is selected, click on ‘Get Employees’.

10. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
How to approve ‘Payable Time’
Click on the first employee in the list.
Time needing to be approved will be displayed by date in ‘Approval Details’.
For each employee:
Verify the time listed in the timesheet is correct. Compare to scheduled time, if possible.
To approve all time click ‘Select All’ this should put a check mark in all the boxes.
Click ‘Approve’.
Confirm the approval.
Verify there was a ‘Saved’ confirmation.
To access the next employee’s time, click ‘Next Employee’ at the top of the page.
Repeat the above steps for each employee.

11. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
If these hours do not match (too much or too little) it could cause the employee to get paid overtime when they shouldn’t or it could cause them to not get paid enough.
 When reviewing the employee’s time to be approved – the total hours will include their regular hours plus any hours they would be receiving a differential for such as Night Diff, Weekend Diff, Overtime, etc.
 If the employee makes an adjustment to their timesheet, sometimes you will notice a negative number and a positive number for the same day – all must be approved.

12. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
Approving Time after adjustments have been made (see picture below): All negative and positive times must be approved to adjust the time that have already been approved.

13. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
How to adjust an employee’s timesheet for them:

14. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
How to adjust an employee’s time sheet for them if they are not showing up on the ‘Approve Payable Time’ screen. Go to ‘Report Time’ and click on ‘Timesheet’. Click on ‘Get Employees’ as you normally would for the other screens, find the employee and click on their name. Enter the employee’s IN and OUT times, but be aware that if the employee only has one IN and one OUT, they need to be entered in the first ‘IN’ and the last ‘OUT’…leave the middle two rows blank. Once the hours are entered, click on the ‘Submit’ button at the bottom.

15. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
Last Step: Review Hours Approved
As a supervisor you should always make sure you have approved all hours for all of your employees. A way to check this would be to go to ‘View Time’ and then click on ‘Payable Time Detail’.
Search employees under your ‘Group ID’ and click ‘Get Employee’…then click on each employee individually and it will look similar to the picture on the next page.
You will be able to see if the employee needs time approved and if nothing comes up for that day, you know the employee never enter any hours for that day and you will need to get ahold of them or enter it for them.

16. Supervisor Instructions: Bi-Weekly Payable Time/Absence Request
When the ‘Status’ states the following: ‘Needs Approval’ = means that you still need to approve ‘Approved’ = means that you have successfully approve the hours ‘Taken by Payroll’ = means that the hours were successfully approved and taken by payroll to be paid.

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