The Rating Official or Reviewing Official can bypass the employee signature in the Monitoring Phase. The option to bypass the employee's signature will appear once the rating official's signs the plan in the Part. 2 Progress Review.
- Open the performance plan.
- Click Progress Review or navigate to Part 2. Progress Review section.
- Click Bypass Employee Signature next to the employee's name.
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Select the bypass reason from the Signature Bypass Reason dropdown.
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Click Yes, Bypass Employee Signature to confirm your action.
- The employee signature is documented with the bypass reason.
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To document additional bypass information, click Edit in Part 10. For Agency Use.
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Enter additional documentation in the Agency Use text box. Click Save or Save and Close.
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Click Save on the plan navigation bar to save all changes to the plan.
What's next:
- If you need to add or release Progress Review notes, see: → Add and Release Progress Review Notes
- If you need to remove signatures in the monitoring phase, see: → Removing Signatures
- If you need to resign in the Monitoring Phase as the Rating Official, see: → Sign a Performance Plan in the Monitoring Phase
- If you need to resign in the Monitoring Phase as the Reviewing Official, see: → Signing Progress Review
- Once the necessary signatures have been added, the plan progresses to the next Rating phase.