Enable the dotted manager

By default, the system allows the reporting manager to approve leaves and expenses. However, if you do not want approvals by the reporting manager, you can enable the dotted manager and map it to employee profiles. Follow the steps below:

1. Dotted manager: Navigate to Control Panel → Settings → Modules and enable the option "Enable Dotted Manager". For Leaves and Expense, select Dotted manager, and click Update.
2. Next, navigate to Control Panel → Employees → View/Add, click the "Add" drop-down, select "Bulk Update" and update the dotted manager for the employees. (Refer to: https://HRStop.thedocs.in/41/Employees-details-update-in-bulk-via-CSV)

If you do not want the reporting manager to approve leaves and expenses, enable the dotted manager and map the employee profiles (refer to points 1 and 2 above).