Employee Enters
Group Time Off
Award – EmpowHR
ESS Version 9.0
Guidelines:
1. Employees may request awards for other employees. An
Employee may not request an award for him/herself.
2. Maximum Time Off Award an employee may request for
another employee is ten hours.
3. Time Off Awards over ten hours must be approved by the
second level supervisor of the recipient employee.
4. Monetary awards are approved by the supervisor of the
employee who requested the awards except when the
recipient of the awards is the award requester’s supervisor.
Then the award recipient’s 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.
Select “Employee Self Service”
Select “Awards” located under “Tasks”
Enter the applicable search criteria. It’s 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.
Using the drop down arrow, select the type
of award being requested
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.
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.
Don’t forget to click the SAVE button!
You should receive a message that the award request
has successfully saved and is being sent to your
Supervisor for review. CLICK “OK”.
Click on “create printable award” to
print a hard copy document if needed.
Click on “view printable award”.
Read the message and click “Open”
To exit the document, click
On the “X”.
Click “File” then click “Print” or click the Print icon
To return to the “search options” for entering
Additional award requests, click on the
“awards” button.
Repeat steps in previous slides to enter requests for
each of the people in the Group for whom the
Group award is being requested.