Delivered Elements for Singapore

Global Payroll defines each business process for Singapore in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legislative requirements, while others support common or customary payroll practices.

This topic discusses:

  • Delivered element creation.

  • Element ownership and maintenance.

Note: If you elect to use the delivered rules for Global Payroll Singapore, use only the employment instance in HR.

All of the elements and rules delivered as part of your country extension were created using the core application—the same application you will use both to create additional elements or rules, and (in many cases) to configure existing elements delivered as part of your Global Payroll system. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application product documentation, we do not reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools you need to define your own elements and rules) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft).

The core application:

  • Consists of a payroll rules engine.

    The payroll rules engine is a flexible tool that enables users to define the rules and elements of their payroll system and execute payroll and absence calculations. Global Payroll does not embed payroll-specific logic or computations in application code. Instead, it specifies all business application logic, such as earnings, deductions, absences, and accumulators, in terms of payroll rules and elements. Global Payroll enables the user to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enable the user to work in their preferred language or currency.

  • Provides a payroll processing framework.

    The payroll processing framework provides a flexible way to define and execute payroll and absence processing flows, such as calendars, run types, pay periods, and process lists.

Country extensions:

  • Are built using the core application.

  • Consist of statutory and customary objects (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).

The delivered elements and rules of your Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether they are owned and maintained by the customer or by PeopleSoft. Some elements and rules are maintained exclusively by PeopleSoft and cannot be modified, while others can be configured to meet requirements unique to each organization.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll

There are five categories of element ownership in Global Payroll:

Term

Definition

PS Delivered/Maintained

Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Elements delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the customer. This category consists primarily of either customary (non-statutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although PeopleSoft may occasionally update elements defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.

Customer Maintained

Elements created and maintained by your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained.

PS Delivered/Customer Modified

Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which the customer has decided to take control (this change is irreversible).

PS Delivered/Maintained /Secure

Delivered elements that the customer can never modify or control.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll for Singapore

Of the five ownership categories described here, only these two are used to define Singapore elements:

  • PS Delivered/Maintained.

  • PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

In general, Global Payroll for Singapore mostly uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Not Maintained except where the modification of an element might interfere with calculations designed to satisfy legislative requirements.

The following table contains an element-by-element description of Global Payroll for Singapore's approach to element ownership and maintenance.

Element Type

Ownership

Exceptions

Accumulators

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF MTD, SEG and YTD accumulators.

Absence Entitlements

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Arrays

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

  • CPF personal data and rates arrays.

  • IRS arrays.

Absence Takes

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Brackets

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

The CPF brackets are PS Delivered/Maintained/Secure.

Counts

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF counts.

Deductions

PS Delivered/Maintained

  • ESPP.

  • Parking and social club.

  • Insurance, loans and leave without pay.

Durations

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF durations.

Dates

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF dates.

Element Groups

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Earnings

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Formulas

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF formulas.

Generation Controls

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF generation controls.

Manage Historical Data Rules

PS Delivered/Maintained

None.

Proration Rules

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF proration rules.

Processes

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Rate Codes

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Rounding Rules

PS Delivered/Maintained

None.

Sections

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

CPF sections.

Variables

PS Delivered/Maintained

  • Areas common to multiple functional areas (prefix CMN).

  • Some CPF variables which are either PS Delivered/Not Maintained or PS Delivered/Maintained/Secure.

  • Other earnings (prefix ERN).

  • Other deductions (prefix DED).

  • Payslip message variables (PSLP).

See PeopleSoft Global Payroll product documentation for more information.