This chapter provides an overview of employee data updating and discusses how to:
Enter an action.
Edit individual or collective orders.
Delete an action.
Manage personal data.
Manage career data.
Manage sanctions and demotions.
Manage civil service positions.
Manage employee status.
Manage assignments.
Manage compensation data.
Manage employee premiums.
Manage work time.
Managing employee categorization.
Manage seniority bonuses.
Manage absences.
Track supporting documents.
Review employee data.
After hiring is validated, the major activity in PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources is updating employee records, using Workforce Administration components. Most pages in these components are identical to those that are used in the hiring process as part of the Employee Record FPS component (HIRE). Unlike the hiring process, you can access different parts of the employee record separately.
You make a transaction update by inserting, deleting, or modifying an event or data in an employee’s record. Each event or action is recorded in a specific component, with its own effective date. This enables you to have a complete history and simulate or plan future events.
You can also update records by collective process. These processes can apply to all employees or to a specific employee category. The processes can be run automatically, at a predetermined time, or manually, by request. Access the options for collective processes by selecting Workforce Administration, Collective Processes.
Many components that are used to update employee records contain the Overall Data page. This is a generic page that you use to enter and process actions, edit individual and collective orders, and delete actions.
Available actions depend on:
The user's role.
By selecting Action Authorization Management on the FPS Installation Parameters 1 page, actions are limited to the action groups that are available to the user. You define the action group/user relationship on the Action Groups and Action Authorization pages.
The component.
Only actions that are authorized for the component can be selected. You authorize Actions on the FPS Action page.
The employee’s status.
Only actions that are authorized for the employee’s status can be selected. This relationship is established on the Authorized Actions/Status page.
The employee's civil service position.
The system controls whether the employee’s civil service position permits the action on the effective date. If the action is not authorized, a message informs the user, and the user modifies the action. The relationship between action and civil service position originates on the CS Position/Actions page.
To enter an action:
Access the Overall Data page for the desired component.
Enter the effective date and sequence number for the action.
The civil service position does not determine the effective sequence.
Select the action.
Select the action status, either Actual or Request.
See Also
Setting Up FPS Installation Parameters
Defining Civil Service Positions
This section discusses how to edit an order.
When you edit an order, you generate 1 to 5 documents that you have previously defined for the action.
To edit an order:
Access the Overall Data page in the desired component.
Select Edit Individual Order or Edit Collective Order. The system assigns an order number.
Click Send to Printer to edit the order.
Select whether this is the final edit.
If you select yes, the Edit Date appears. The edited order list depends on the employee’s status and action that you ordered. The system produces a Crystal report for each document.
See Also
Defining Individual and Collective Orders
To delete an action:
Select Order Abrogation for the orders that have been edited.
Abrogated documents are edited, and the abrogation date is displayed. Once the order abrogation is edited, the move is deleted and the data is stored.
Click the Delete button for actions without orders or with incomplete orders.
The move is deleted in the employee record and the data is stored in the delete moves table.
Use the Modify a Person component to modify employees' person information such as their address and marital status.
This section provides an overview of career data and discusses how to:
Enter an action that adds or modifies employee career data.
Enter career classification data.
View compensation and seniority data.
Record seniority earned in another organization.
Save career data.
Delete career data.
Enter and view an employee’s previous duties, seniority, and employers.
The Career component (FPAEECAREER_PNL) enables you to manage actions that affect employees’ careers, mainly grades and step successions such as advancement, promotion, and demotion. This is one of the principal Manage French Public Sector business processes.
Several collective processes are associated with career data:
Seniority calculation.
Automatic step increment date calculation.
Probation period management.
Reclassification process.
Retroactivity process.
Access the Career - Overall Data page.
Sequence |
Enter the sequence number. This enables you to enter several actions on the same date and in the same part of the employee record. |
Action Status |
Select a status. Values are: Actual: The default status. Request: Select Request to submit the action for approval. When the system controls budget headcount, some Career, Civil Service Position, and Work Time changes must be requested systematically. |
See Also
Understanding Employee Data Updating
Access the Career - Classification page.
Section and Article |
Select the section. This information is required if your system controls budget headcount. |
Corps |
Displays the corps name. When the corps changes, the entry date for the new corps is updated with the effective date. |
Grade/Step
The action that you entered on the Career - Overall Data page determines whether or not you can modify the Grade and Step or Scale-letter/Sub-step fields in this group box. For grade promotion, the grades that are prompted are authorized by the employee’s status.
Grade |
Only valid grades for the employee’s status are available. The corps and category that are associated with the grade appear automatically. |
Access Mode |
You can access this field only for grade promotions. |
Step |
When you update the employee record, entering the step is mandatory. Only steps belonging to the salary grade table are available. |
Expected Advancement Date |
Displays the advancement date. The Advancement Date Calculation process updates the advancement date. If a sanction occurs, you can modify the expected advancement date in the Sanction/Demotion component. |
Probation Period
Trainee |
This field is available only when you select a grade promotion implying a corps change for an employee who is a civil servant. Select to indicate a promotion probation period is required. |
Expected End Date |
Displays the effective date, plus the promotion probation period length, minus 1 day. The exact end date accounts for part-time and civil service position breaks. The Probation Period End Date Calculation process produces the exact end date. While the employee is in a probation period, you cannot record grade promotion or step increment actions. |
Ten PPd Lgth (tenure probation period length) |
If the employee is a trainee, the system displays the trainee’s tenure probation period length in grade. |
Probation Date |
Available for trainees only. Calculated by the tenure date calculation process. It accounts for possible statutory breaks during probation period length and part-time. |
See Also
Managing the Promotion Probation Period
Access the Career - Comp. Seniority page.
Grade Premiums |
Click to access the Grade Premiums page of the Grades component. |
Grade and Step |
Depending on the grade and step that you entered on the Career - Classification page, the system displays a summary page of the employee classification: corps, grade, Salary Grade table, and scale. |
Forced Index and Incrsd Ind (increased index) |
Select the Forced Index check box to modify the index that corresponds to the employee’s grade and step in the Salary Grade table. Enter the new index value in the Incrsd Ind field, which becomes available for entry. |
Component of Pay
Annual Rate, Currency, and Comp Freq (compensation frequency) |
Click the right mouse button to convert the compensation rate to another currency. The system uses the triangulation method. You can also convert the compensation rate to another frequency. The system does not record the modification. |
Compensation Application Date |
Displays the effective date. You can modify this date if the effective date comes before the application date. |
Seniority
Sen to be Carried Over (seniority to be carried over) and Credited Seniority |
Display values that are calculated during the collective seniority process. |
Entry Seniority |
Click to record seniority that is acquired in another organization or during military service. You can enter seniority in category, corps, and grade. |
Instance Terminated and (Sub)Step Terminated |
These check boxes are cleared for a new row. Manage French Public Sector uses both indicators in the seniority calculation collective process. |
Access the Entry Seniority Catg/Body/Grd page.
You can record seniority that was earned in another organization or during military service. Enter the category, corps, and grade entry seniority only if they imply a category, corps, or grade change.
Note. A change of category implies a change of corps. A change of corps implies a change of grade.
When capturing each seniority at entry, the system checks that:
Total seniority at entry in all corps in a category is lower than or equal to the seniority at entry in the category.
Total seniority at entry in all grades in a corps is lower than or equal to the seniority at entry in the corps.
Seniority entered on this page does not add to or substitute for credited seniority in step. Thus, they are not considered in the advancement process. However, they are integrated into the criteria considered when listing promotable employees.
See Also
Calculating Seniority and Length of Service
When saving a new action, the system:
Overrides the Expected Advancement Date field from the previous row with the actual end date provided by the new action.
The end date equals the next move effective date, minus 1 day.
Selects the Instance Terminated check box in the prior row.
A move is terminated as soon as it is followed by another move.
Selects the Step Terminated check box in the previous row unless the last move that was inserted is an action that authorizes Previous Instance Seniority Carry Over.
Seniority carryover is defined in the Previous Instance Sen Carry Ov field on the FPS Actions page (Set Up HRMS, Product Related, Workforce Administration, Workforce Data FPS, Actions).
You can delete an action that is specifically recorded in the Career component. When you do so, the system checks the consistency. For instance, when you delete a step increment action, the system checks that a seniority bonus that is associated with the step has not been granted. If it has, a message is issued. You must delete the seniority bonus before deleting the step increment.
See Also
Access the Prior Career page.
To track an employee’s career, enter the career data. This page is for your records only. No data is required.
The Sanction/Demotion component (FPAEESANCTION_PNL) enables you to sanction or demote employees. A sanction freezes employee advancement. A demotion moves an employee to a lower step.
These actions affect the employee’s career data and seniority calculation. You can view these actions in the Career component. However, you cannot enter a sanction or demotion in that component.
This section discusses how to:
Enter a sanction or demotion action.
Enter the sanction or demotion details.
Access the Sanct/Demotion - Overall Data page.
To enter a sanction or demotion:
Add a new row.
Select the Action.
The available actions include only sanction and demotion actions. You define whether an action is a sanction or demotion action when setting up the action on the Action Details page.
Enter the action status.
Select whether to edit an individual or collective order for this action.
Access the Sanction/Demotion page.
If you entered a sanction action code, the system selects the Sanction check box to indicate the action is a sanction. To enter sanction details:
Enter an appointment date.
Select Modify Advancement Date to change the employee's advancement date and enter the new advancement date in Expected Advancement Date.
If you entered a demotion action code, the system selects the Demotion check box to indicate the action is a demotion. To enter demotion details:
Enter an appointment date.
Enter the new step.
After you have recorded a sanction or a demotion, you can go to the Career component and determine that the sanction is stored as an action (you cannot modify this action in the Career component).
When you save the next action in the Career component, the system asks you if the selected action terminates the sanction or demotion. Until you answer yes, the system displays this message each time you save a new element in the Career component.
This section provides an overview of civil service positions and discusses how to enter civil service position data.
With this part of the employee record, you can track employees’ civil service positions. Each action that is entered in the Chg Civil Service Position FPS component (FPAEELEGAL_PNL) creates a new civil service position that will be the employee’s civil service position from the move’s effective date onward. The employee keeps this civil service position until a new move modifies it.
For each new civil service position, Manage French Public Sector verifies that all civil service positions match the moves (past and future) that are selected in the employee’s record. If there are incompatibilities, you cannot insert a move in the Chg Civil Service Position FPS component.
Access the Civil Service Position Data page.
To enter civil service position data:
View and modify secondment data, if needed, by clicking Secondment Information.
Enter the civil service position expected end date.
The expected end date is mandatory if the action requires a date of return.
If the previous action has created a new civil service position requiring a return, the new action creates the return. When editing orders, an order is automatically edited to notify the return.
If the civil service position setup indicates that the new position requires full-time status, Manage French Public Sector verifies this. If the employee works part-time, you cannot save the data. Click Civil Service Position to view setup information for the civil service position.
When a civil service position implies that the position is to be vacated, a message indicates that status. When you save the page, the Transfer Assignment button enables you to access the employee's assignment data and manually modify the position.
This section discusses how to view and change an employee’s status.
Note. If you are changing an employee’s status from Without Career to With Career, PeopleSoft recommends that you create a new employee record.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEESTATUS_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Status FPS |
View and change an employee’s status. |
Access the Status page.
The availability of many fields on this page is dependent on employee status. Enter data in the fields as needed.
Employee Status Code |
Enter the new employee status. |
Access Mode |
Select how the employee reached the new status, Competition or Recruitment. |
Comp/Salary Grade Table (compensation/salary grade table) |
This check box is available for entry only for employees whose statuses do not imply career management. |
Tenure Date |
Enter the tenure date for Civil Servant and Trainee statuses only. |
Tenure Probation Period
This group box is available for entry if the status is Trainee before tenure.
Length |
Displays the tenure probation period length in the trainee’s grade for trainees. |
Probation Date |
Displays the probation period end date that is calculated by the process. It accounts for possible statutory breaks during probation period length and part-time work. |
See Also
Hiring French Public Sector Employees
This part of the employee record enables you to update employees’ assignment and job data. It also determines base compensation for employees who are in the Salary Grade Table according to their job codes and steps.
This section discusses how to:
Record changes of position, business unit, company and department.
Modify job data.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEEPOST_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Assignment FPS, Assignment - Overall Data |
Add a new assignment. |
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FPAEEPOST_PNL2 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Assignment FPS, Assignment - Work Location |
Record changes of position, business unit, company and department. |
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FPAEEPOST_PNL3 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Assignment FPS, Assignment - Job Information |
View and modify job data. |
Access the Assignment - Work Location page.
To record changes:
If you manage part of your system by position, enter a position number in the Position Number field.
The system populates the following fields: Regulatory Region, Company, Business Unit, Department, Payroll System, and Pay Group. Select Override Position Data to modify these values if needed.
Warning! In case of partial position management, modifying position data on the Organizational Development, Position Management menu can affect the civil servant assigned to that position on this page.
If you do not manage your system by position, enter the Business Unit and Department.
You must also enter the employee's pay group. If you are using PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll, you must enter additional information.
See Also
Access the Assignment - Job Information page.
Job Code Premiums |
Click to access the Job Code Premiums component. |
Step |
Enter the step for employee on the Salary Grade Table. |
Forced Salary |
Select to be able to adjust the component of pay data on the Compensation - 2 page. |
Component of Pay |
Displays compensation elements. |
The Classification and Component of Pay group boxes are available only for employees without careers who are compensated on salary grade table.
This section provides an overview of the pages used for compensation management and discusses how to update compensation for employees.
The compensation pages affect only employees without careers. The pages distinguish between employees in salary grade tables and employees with free compensation.
The base compensation of employees without career and in salary grade tables are defined automatically by their job codes and steps. You manage this data in the Update Assignment FPS component. In the Update Compensation FPS component (FPAEESALARY_PNL), you can modify these previously defined base compensations only by forcing indexes or amounts.
For employees without careers and with free compensation, you enter the compensation amounts directly.
In Manage French Public Sector, employee compensation is managed on different pages, depending on status and compensation mode:
Status |
Pages |
Managed Data |
Employee With Career |
Career - Compensation Seniority |
Compensation + Forced Index |
Employee Without Career - in Salary Grade table |
Assignment - Job Information, Compensation - 2 |
Base Compensation, Forced Salary |
Employee Without Career - outside Salary Grade table |
Compensation - 2 |
Compensation |
All statuses |
Employee Premiums |
Financial bonuses |
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEESALARY_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Compensation FPS, Compensation - 1 |
Enter an action that adds or modifies employee compensation data. |
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FPAEESALARY_PNL2 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Compensation FPS, Compensation - 2 |
Update compensation for employees. |
Access the Compensation - 2 page.
Updating Compensation for Employees in Salary Grade Tables
To update compensation for employees in salary grade tables:
Select Modify Index or Modify Compensation.
These options are available only if Forced Salary is selected (for the specified period) on the Assignment - Job Information page.
Adjust the Component of Pay data.
Updating Compensation for Employees with Free Compensation
Only the Component of Pay group box appears for employees with free compensation.
To update compensation for employees with free compensation:
Enter the Rate Code.
The system populates Frequency, Currency, and Comp Rate:
Modify these values as needed.
Individual premiums can be assigned to employees. They can be expressed as a number of points, a flat amount, or a percentage. Individual premiums are tracked the same way for contract workers and civil servants.
This section discusses how to update employee premiums.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEEPREMIUM_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Grant Premiums FPS, Overall Data |
Enter an action that adds or modifies employee premium data. |
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FPAEEPREMIUM_PNL2 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Grant Premiums FPS, Premiums |
Update employee premium data. |
Access the Premiums page.
When you select the Rate Code, the system makes some fields unavailable depending on the type of rate code. This table summarizes which fields are available and unavailable for each type of rate code:
Rate Code Type |
Fields Available |
Fields Unavailable |
A flat amount |
Comp Rate, Currency, and Comp Freq |
Points, Percent, and Rate Code Group |
Percentage |
Percent and Rate Code Group |
Rate Code, Comp Rate, Points, Currency, and Comp Freq |
Valued in points |
Points, Currency, and Comp Freq |
Comp Rate, Percent, and Rate Code Group |
Rate Code |
Enter the rate code for the premium. |
Currency |
Optional. |
Comp Freq (compensation frequency) |
Optional. |
Pro-Ration Row Type |
Select a type. Values are Main Salary, Secondary, or None. |
Career Premium |
Displays a value that indicates whether the premium is granted for the current step or grade. Values are: Grade/Step Sensitive: The premium is deactivated when a change in step occurs. Grade sensitive: The premium is deactivated when a change in grade occurs. None: The premium is granted regardless of career path. This field is unavailable for entry if the employee is not a civil servant and therefore does not have grade/step career data. |
Premium Status |
Displays the status. Values are: Active: The premium is active. On Hold: The premium is not aligned with the grade or grade and step data. Reactivated: The premium is reactivated. |
Linking the Career Premium and Premium Status Fields
The actions (rows) in the career record can be separated into two groups: open occurrences and closed occurrences:
Open occurrences
Updates, deletions, or additions of open occurrences initiate online updates to the Premium Status field according to the following scheme:
Career Change |
Career Premium |
Premium Status |
Neither grade nor step changes. |
Any option. |
No change. |
Step or grade changes. |
None. |
No change. |
Step changes. |
Grade- and step-sensitive. |
On Hold if the step change effective date precedes the premium effective date. |
Step changes. |
Grade-sensitive. |
No change. |
Grade changes. |
Step-sensitive. |
On Hold if the grade change effective date precedes the premium effective date. |
Grade changes. |
Grade-sensitive. |
On Hold if the grade change effective date precedes the premium effective date. |
Closed occurrences
The retroactivity process manages the impact of updates, deletions, or additions of closed occurrences.
You must manually initiate the existing retroactivity process by updating Career data. After the career data has been rebuilt, following any career changes, the process scans the premiums for the employees with career changes and assesses whether the premiums agree with the grade and step data in the Career Table. If the premiums are not valid, they are flagged as On Hold.
See Also
Running the Retroactivity Process
This section discusses how to track an employee’s work time.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEEWORKRT_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Work Time FPS, Working Time - Overall Data |
Enter an action that affects the employee’s working time. |
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FPAEEWORKRT_PNL2 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Work Time FPS, Working Time |
Track an employee’s working time. |
Access the Working Time page.
Full//Part Time |
Indicate if the employee is full-time or part-time. |
Working Time Percentage |
Select a working-time percentage for part-time employees. |
Position Actual End Date |
Displays the next row’s effective date, minus 1 day. |
Position Expected End Date |
Enter an expected end date. This field is either required or optional, depending on the action that you have set up. |
Hours Type |
Enter the type of hours; for example, STA (standard hours). |
Standard Hours |
Select the number of hours that the employee works per standard work period. |
Standard Work Period |
Select the length of the standard work period, such as a weekly. |
This section discusses how to manage employee categorization.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEEOTHER_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Categorization FPS, Employee Categ - Overall Data |
View employee data. |
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FPAEEOTHER_PNL2 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Update Categorization FPS, Employee Categorization |
Maintain employee data that is not specific to French Public Sector. |
This section provides an overview of seniority bonus management and discusses how to assign day bonuses.
Review these considerations for managing seniority bonuses:
You can assign day bonuses to employees to reduce the seniority that is necessary before step increment.
Step duration reductions that are granted are given in years, months, and days and are associated with the step.
When an employee is in a substep, the step duration reduction is not granted within the substep, but within the step that corresponds to the scale letter.
Step duration reductions are taken into account in the seniority calculation collective process.
For step duration reductions, the system can control the number of bonus days.
If the corps setup authorizes a step duration reduction control, the number of bonus days must not exceed the difference between the average step duration and the minimum step duration. Minimum and average step duration is defined on the Steps page. Seniority reduction control is defined on the Corps page.
Note. Day bonuses reduce the seniority that is necessary before step increment but they do not reduce the seniority necessary before substep increment.
Access the Sen Bonus Days page.
Enter the seniority bonus days and the bonus end date.
This section discusses how to track an employee’s absences.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEEABSENCE_PNL1 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Absences FPS, Absences - Overall Data |
Add an absence action. |
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FPAEEABSENCE_PNL2 |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, Absences FPS, Absences |
Track an employee’s absences. |
Access the Absences page.
There is no interaction between the Civil Service Position business process and Absences. An absence that is selected in the Civil Service Position business process is not automatically retrieved in Absences, or vice versa. These two business processes are independent.
To track absences:
Enter the Position Expected End Date field.
Depending on the action and its setup, this field can be required or optional.
Enter the number of renewals and the duration of the absence in days.
If necessary, enter a comment.
When you hire an employee or update certain employee personal data (address change or marital status change), the employee must provide certain supporting documents. Use the Employee Supporting Documents page to track the supporting documents the employee provides.
This section discusses how to track supporting documents.
Page Name |
Object Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
FPAEESUPDOC_PNL |
Workforce Administration, Job Information, French Public Sector Jobs, Supporting Documents FPS |
Track an employee’s supporting documents. |
Access the Employee Supporting Documents page.
The page displays the list of supporting documents automatically generated if you select the Supporting Document Required check box before saving the Hire Employee or Update Personal Information components.
Enter the type of supporting document provided in Sup Doc ID (supporting document ID) and the date you received it in Doc Deliv Dt (document delivery date).
This section provides a list of pages you can use to review previous actions and data for an employee.