In Odoo 16, the access rights for the hr.employee form can be set in the "Settings" menu, under "Users" and "Groups".

You can also set the access rights programmatically by creating a new access rights record for the hr.employee model using the ir.model.access object.

Here is an example of how you might give a specific group of users read-only access to the hr.employee form in Odoo 16:

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from odoo import api, models

class EmployeeAccessRights(models.Model):

    _name = 'employee.access.rights'

    @api.model

    def set_employee_access_rights(self):

        access_obj = self.env['ir.model.access']

        group_obj = self.env['res.groups']

        # Get the group you want to give access to

        group_id = group_obj.search([('name', '=', 'HR Managers')]).id

        # Create a new access rights record for the hr.employee model

        access_obj.create({

            'name': 'hr_employee_read',

            'model_id': self.env.ref('hr.model_hr_employee').id,

            'group_id': group_id,

            'perm_read': True,

            'perm_write': False,

            'perm_create': False,

            'perm_unlink': False,

        })

You can also use the above class in your function or automation to call the function set_employee_access_rights

In settings > Employees employee Update rights section uncheck the 'Employee Editing' option