{"id":353,"date":"2021-09-15T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:03:54","slug":"approving-employee-timesheets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/policies\/timesheets-timekeeping-2\/approving-employee-timesheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Approving Employee Timesheets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Timesheet approvers review and approve employee timesheets on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/garnet-gateway\/\">Garnet Gateway<\/a>. The deadline for approval depends on which kind of employee you are approving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-btn btn-wrap\"><div class=\"btn-action\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><h3 class=\"btn-title\">Exempt Staff (Monthly Pay Cycle)<\/h3><div class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btn-content\">\n<p>The deadline for approving exempt staff timesheets is the Monday of pay week, generally the second Monday of the month, at 11:59 A.M.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-btn btn-wrap\"><div class=\"btn-action\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><h3 class=\"btn-title\">Nonexempt Staff (Bi-Weekly Pay Cycle)<\/h3><div class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btn-content\">\n<p>The deadline for approving nonexempt staff timesheets is the Monday of pay week, every other Monday, at 11:59 P.M.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-btn btn-wrap\"><div class=\"btn-action\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><h3 class=\"btn-title\">Student Employees (Bi-Weekly Pay Cycle)<\/h3><div class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btn-content\">\n<p>The deadline for approving student timesheets is the Tuesday of pay week, every other Tuesday, at 11:59 P.M.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Please review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/calendars-2\/\">Payroll Calendar<\/a> for the appropriate pay type to get exact deadline dates.  The &#8220;Approver End Date&#8221; column is the deadline date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/files\/2024\/01\/How-to-login-to-Garnet-Gateway-to-approve-a-timesheet.pdf\">How to Login to Garnet Gateway and Approve a Timesheet<\/a> guide for step by step instructions on navigating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/garnet-gateway\/\">Garnet Gateway<\/a> and approving employee timesheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timesheet approvers review and approve employee timesheets on Garnet Gateway. The deadline&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1208,"featured_media":0,"parent":257,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions\/634"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/payroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}