Line Managers

An employee can be assigned a Manager within an employer in BrightPay. The Manager will have permission to view the employees they are assigned to on the Manager's portal, view employees' personal details, annual leave entitlement, employer calendar, enter in leave or cancel leave for an employee and approve/decline employee requests for these employees.

1. An individual employee can be assigned to a Manager.

a) To do this please go to > Employees > Select Employee > Edit Details > HR tab.

b) Select '+ Add Manager' under the 'Reporting to' heading on the left.

c) You can now assign a manager or multiple managers to this employee.

The Manager can be of of three types:

• Another employee in the same employer
• A member of the Organisation
• Someone outside of the Organisation that is neither an employee of the employer or a member of the organisation

d) Select the Manager and click 'Ok'.

e) Select 'Save'

Repeat the process to add additional managers to an employee.

Managers can log in at employee.brightpay.com/manager

Note: Managers can only view / approve leave and cannot access payroll or approve payroll requests. Users would need to be set up as a client user to view payroll for employees.

FAQs

Q. I have an employee who I also need to set up as a manager. Can they use 2 different email addresses - ie their personal email address as an employee and their work email address as a manager to approve leave for other employees?

A. Yes, one person can have two separate accounts, one as a manager and one as an employee and these accounts can use two different email addresses if preferred. 

Please note, If an individual is set up with two separate email addresses for employee and manager functions in BrightPay Cloud, they will have two separate logins (two BrightIDs). They must sign out and in with the appropriate credentials to switch between these roles.