diff --git a/tailbone/views/employees.py b/tailbone/views/employees.py
index d98f6e61..9ea2cb6a 100644
--- a/tailbone/views/employees.py
+++ b/tailbone/views/employees.py
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ import colander
 from deform import widget as dfwidget
 from webhelpers2.html import tags, HTML
 
-from tailbone import grids
 from tailbone.db import Session
 from tailbone.views import MasterView, AutocompleteView
 
@@ -47,6 +46,10 @@ class EmployeesView(MasterView):
     model_class = model.Employee
     has_versions = True
 
+    labels = {
+        'id': "ID",
+    }
+
     grid_columns = [
         'id',
         'first_name',
@@ -73,6 +76,7 @@ class EmployeesView(MasterView):
 
     def configure_grid(self, g):
         super(EmployeesView, self).configure_grid(g)
+        route_prefix = self.get_route_prefix()
 
         g.joiners['phone'] = lambda q: q.outerjoin(model.EmployeePhoneNumber, sa.and_(
             model.EmployeePhoneNumber.parent_uuid == model.Employee.uuid,
@@ -89,13 +93,22 @@ class EmployeesView(MasterView):
         g.filters['phone'] = g.make_filter('phone', model.EmployeePhoneNumber.number,
                                            label="Phone Number")
 
-        if self.request.has_perm('employees.edit'):
+        # id
+        if self.request.has_perm('{}.edit'.format(route_prefix)):
+            g.set_link('id')
+        else:
+            g.hide_column('id')
+            del g.filters['id']
+
+        # status
+        if self.request.has_perm('{}.edit'.format(route_prefix)):
+            g.set_enum('status', self.enum.EMPLOYEE_STATUS)
             g.filters['status'].default_active = True
             g.filters['status'].default_verb = 'equal'
-            g.filters['status'].default_value = self.enum.EMPLOYEE_STATUS_CURRENT
-            g.filters['status'].set_value_renderer(grids.filters.EnumValueRenderer(self.enum.EMPLOYEE_STATUS))
+            # TODO: why must we set unicode string value here?
+            g.filters['status'].default_value = six.text_type(self.enum.EMPLOYEE_STATUS_CURRENT)
         else:
-            del g.filters['id']
+            g.hide_column('status')
             del g.filters['status']
 
         g.filters['first_name'].default_active = True
@@ -112,20 +125,12 @@ class EmployeesView(MasterView):
 
         g.set_sort_defaults('first_name')
 
-        g.set_enum('status', self.enum.EMPLOYEE_STATUS)
-
-        g.set_label('id', "ID")
         g.set_label('phone', "Phone Number")
         g.set_label('email', "Email Address")
 
-        g.set_link('id')
         g.set_link('first_name')
         g.set_link('last_name')
 
-        if not self.request.has_perm('employees.edit'):
-            g.hide_column('id')
-            g.hide_column('status')
-
     def query(self, session):
         q = session.query(model.Employee).join(model.Person)
         if not self.request.has_perm('employees.edit'):
@@ -186,7 +191,6 @@ class EmployeesView(MasterView):
         f.set_label('display_name', "Short Name")
         f.set_label('phone', "Phone Number")
         f.set_label('email', "Email Address")
-        f.set_label('id', "ID")
 
         if not self.viewing:
             f.remove_fields('first_name', 'last_name')