Modifying and Creating Absence Elements
PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States delivers absence elements based on practices that are common to many businesses in the U.S. Your specific business practices, however, may require you to modify the delivered elements or create your own. This topic provides some examples of common absence rules modifications and additions. Of course, many other ways are available in which you might want to set up absence elements. These examples illustrate the kinds of changes that are possible and how you implement them.
Modifying Vacation Accrual
The system determines how much vacation a specific payee should accrue each pay period based on job status and years of service. This information is stored in the ABS BR ENTITLE bracket. By changing the return values for this bracket, you can modify how much vacation the system assigns to payees.
Modifying Bereavement Leave Allotment
The system assigns 24 hours (three working days) of bereavement leave to a payee per death that occurs. This allotment is based on the ABS VR BER ENTIT variable. By changing the value of this variable, you can modify the amount of bereavement leave that the system grants.
Establishing an Annual Limit for Jury Leave
PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States does not deliver an entitlement for jury leave. This means that no limit exists to the amount of jury leave that a payee can take. If you want to establish an annual limit for paid jury leave, you must create a new jury leave entitlement.
Adding New Types of Absences
A business may provide payees with types of absences that are not delivered with PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States, such as maternity leave or personal leave. To implement new absences, you must create a variety of new elements, including entitlements, supporting elements, takes, and earnings.