Get employee
Reads one employee's profile.
GET https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/peoplehr/employees/{employee_id}
read
Returns job title, department, line manager, start date and work email as the profile shows them to your role. Fields your role cannot open, such as salary, are left out. It reads only and changes nothing.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| employee_id string required | string | Employee ID from list_employees, for example PW15. |
Request
curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/peoplehr/employees/employee_8c41d2 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY"result = client.call("peoplehr", "get_employee", {"employee_id":"employee_8c41d2"})const result = await cotlet.call('peoplehr', 'get_employee', {"employee_id":"employee_8c41d2"});cotlet call peoplehr get_employee --data '{"employee_id":"employee_8c41d2"}'Example response
{
"employee_id": "PW41",
"name": "Ana Lopez",
"job_title": "Account Executive",
"department": "Sales",
"line_manager": {
"employee_id": "PW8",
"name": "Dana Reyes"
},
"start_date": "2026-11-16",
"work_email": "ana.lopez@example.com"
}