This update fixes several permission issues that prevented HR, payroll, contract, and team leader users from completing everyday leave and employee management tasks. It also makes benefit setup easier from Payroll and improves benefit conflict checks, helping payroll preparation run more smoothly and faster.

https://github.com/odoo/enterprise/pull/3810 adds some tests which highlights some issues (mainly access rights issues).

This PR fixes them


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This update removes an unused employee status field that could trigger access errors when contract managers created contracts. It also adds broader payroll flow testing to help ensure key HR payroll steps continue to work with the right permissions.