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GET
/
lucca-api
/
employees
/
{id}
Retrieve an employee
curl --request GET \
  --url https://{host}/lucca-api/employees/{id} \
  --header 'Api-Version: <api-version>' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
{
  "id": "416",
  "type": "employee",
  "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employees/416",
  "remoteId": "00002345",
  "portrait": {
    "id": "66512232",
    "type": "portrait",
    "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/portraits/66512232"
  },
  "givenName": "Edward",
  "familyName": "Atkinson",
  "employeeNumber": "E000124",
  "status": "active",
  "email": "eatkinson@acme.corp",
  "birthDay": {
    "day": 22,
    "month": 12
  },
  "phoneNumber": "+33145784512",
  "applicableEmployment": {
    "id": "154",
    "type": "employment",
    "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employments/154"
  },
  "applicableJobPosition": {
    "id": "74",
    "type": "job-position",
    "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/job-positions/74"
  },
  "createdAt": "2024-04-15T23:12:54.0001Z",
  "lastUpdatedAt": "2024-04-15T23:12:54.0001Z",
  "links": {
    "portrait": {
      "href": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/files/66512232?token=eyJhbGciOi"
    },
    "employments": {
      "href": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employments?employee.id=416"
    },
    "jobPositions": {
      "href": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/job-positions?employment.employee.id=416"
    },
    "personalRecord": {
      "href": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employee-personal-records?employee.id=416"
    }
  },
  "embedded": {
    "employment": {
      "4561": {
        "id": "4561",
        "type": "employment",
        "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employments/4561",
        "remoteId": "EMPLOYMENT#4512-ac",
        "employee": {
          "id": "416",
          "type": "employee",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employees/416"
        },
        "legalEntity": {
          "id": "123",
          "type": "legal-entity",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/legal-entities/123"
        },
        "status": "active",
        "start": {
          "date": "2024-01-01"
        },
        "end": null,
        "document": {
          "id": "74411",
          "type": "file",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/files/74411"
        },
        "template": {
          "id": "4",
          "type": "employment-template",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employment-templates/4"
        },
        "createdAt": "2024-04-15T23:12:54.0001Z",
        "lastUpdatedAt": "2024-04-15T23:12:54.0001Z",
        "links": {
          "jobPositions": {
            "href": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/job-positions?employment.id=4561"
          },
          "probationaryPeriods": {
            "href": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/probationary-periods?employment.id=4561"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "job-position": {
      "74": {
        "id": "74",
        "type": "job-position",
        "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/job-positions/74",
        "remoteId": null,
        "employment": {
          "id": "28",
          "type": "employment",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employments/28"
        },
        "employee": {
          "id": "416",
          "type": "employee",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employees/416"
        },
        "status": "active",
        "startsOn": "2024-01-01",
        "endsOn": null,
        "businessEstablishment": {
          "id": "5",
          "type": "business-establishment",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/business-establishments/5"
        },
        "jobTitle": "Developer",
        "jobQualification": {
          "id": "982",
          "type": "job-qualification",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/job-qualifications/982"
        },
        "manager": {
          "id": "541",
          "type": "employee",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/employees/541"
        },
        "occupationCategory": {
          "id": "12",
          "type": "occupation-category",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/occupation-categories/12"
        },
        "workingTimeArrangement": {
          "id": "23",
          "type": "working-time-arrangement",
          "url": "about:blank"
        },
        "department": {
          "id": "32",
          "type": "department",
          "url": "https://example.ilucca.net/lucca-api/departments/32"
        },
        "document": null,
        "notes": null,
        "updatedAttributes": [
          "jobTitle",
          "jobQualification"
        ],
        "createdAt": "2024-04-15T23:12:54.0001Z",
        "lastUpdatedAt": "2024-04-15T23:12:54.0001Z",
        "links": {}
      }
    }
  }
}
This API endpoint is in beta and may be subject to changes, including breaking changes (similarly to the legacy API endpoints), without prior notice. Read more about versioning.
OAuth 2.0 scopes
 employees.readonly
or
 employees.readwrite
EstablishmentsThis API endpoint will filter out results based on accessible business-establishments.You may only access employees whose applicable business-establishments are accessible to you.

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

The Lucca API implements the oAuth 2 protocol with the client-credentials-flow. Refer to RFC8725.

Headers

​
Api-Version
enum<string>
required

Set the API version.

Available options:
2024-11-01
Allowed value: "2024-11-01"
Maximum string length: 10
Example:

"2024-11-01"

​
If-None-Match
string

Only execute the request if current cached version of the resource does not match the one given here.

Example:

"W/q5sd4w2x1c1gfdg"

​
If-Match
string

Only execute the request if current cached version of the resource matches the one given here. Useful to avoid concurrency conflicts.

Example:

"W/q5sd4w2x1c1gfdg"

​
Accept-Encoding
string

List of compression algorithms you support.

Path Parameters

​
id
string
required

Identifier of the employee to retrieve.

Minimum string length: 1

Query Parameters

​
include
enum<string>[]

Include metadata:

  • embedded: the partial or complete representations of related resources (e.g. the employee the resource belongs to).
  • links: links to related resources or actions (e.g. approving a leave-request). May be null when you do not have access to the resource (or action).
  • totalCount: only applicable on collections (i.e. lists of resources), gives the total number of items across all pages.

Read more about expanding responses.

Available options:
embedded,
links,
totalCount

Response

OK

An employee resource.

​
id
string
Minimum string length: 1
​
type
string
Allowed value: "employee"
​
url
string<uri>
​
remoteId
null | string

Must be unique.

Required string length: 1 - 100
​
portrait
portrait-reference · object

Reference to the employee's portrait, which is a file (picture) representing them.

​
givenName
string

Name given at birth. In the U.S.A., the first name of a person. In French: "prénom". Leading and trailing spaces are automatically removed.

Required string length: 1 - 255
​
familyName
string

Name inherited from the person's family. In the U.S.A., the last name of a person. In French: "nom (de famille)". Leading and trailing spaces are automatically removed.

Required string length: 1 - 255
​
employeeNumber
null | string
Required string length: 1 - 50
​
status
enum<string>

Read-only. The employee status is calculated from the employee's employments.

  • active: employee has an employment as of today.
  • upcoming: employee currently has no employment but will have one in the future.
  • deactivated: employee used to have an employment but no longer does.
Available options:
active,
upcoming,
deactivated
Example:

"active"

​
email
null | string<email>

Professional email of this employee. "<" and ">" characters are forbidden. Some domains are blacklisted and may thus result in 400 errors.

Required string length: 3 - 255
​
birthDay
object

Year-less date of birth.

Read-only, as it is infered from the employee-personal-record birthDate. Take note that month starts at "1" and not zero, i.e. "1" is for January, "2" for February, etc...

​
phoneNumber
string<phone> | null

Professional phone number of this employee.

Pattern: ^[\+]?[(]?[0-9]{3}[)]?[-\s\.]?[0-9]{3}[-\s\.]?[0-9]{4,6}$
Example:

"+3356565656"

​
applicableEmployment
employment-reference · object

Read-only. Reference to the applicable employment of this employee. If the employee status is "deactivated", then references their last employment. If the employee status is "upcoming", then references their closest next employment.

​
applicableJobPosition
job-position-reference · object

Read-only. Reference to the active job-position of this employee. Matches the same logic as the "applicableEmployment".

​
createdAt
string<date-time-offset>

Read-only. UTC timestamp of the moment this object was created.

Example:

"2023-01-23T12:45:23.1234Z"

​
lastUpdatedAt
string<date-time>

Read-only. UTC timestamp of the moment this object was last updated. Set upon creation, update or deletion of the object.

Example:

"2023-01-23T12:45:23.1234Z"

​
links
object
​
embedded
object

Embeds the representation of resources related to the employee(s).

Only returned if requested by the API client: ?include=embedded.