HR Authorization Policy: What It Is And What To Include
You approve a pay change, a manager approves overtime, Finance approves an expense, and an employee signs a payroll deduction form. If nobody can explain who had authority to approve each action, HR ends up sorting out the confusion after the fact.
This article covers how to build an HR authorization policy: who approves which decisions, which authorizations HR collects from employees, and how to get the policy acknowledged. It doesn’t cover the legal requirements for specific forms, such as state payroll deduction rules or Form I-9 steps.