Referencing Action and Reason Codes

The PeopleSoft Human Resources system comes with a basic set of action codes. Pension calculations do not assume anything about the relevance of particular action codes. This is because your company may use these codes differently from another company, or you may modify the delivered codes. Therefore, the pension functions that look at an employee's action history, service and consolidations, require that you specify the codes that impact pension calculations.

Your company may have any number of action codes that are treated the same in specific situations. For example, all hire and rehire actions might fall into a single category for service purposes. To eliminate the tedious work of identifying all significant action and reason combinations in the consolidation and service pages, you set up categories for codes that are treated similarly.

If an action is treated differently depending on the associated reasons, you can specify which reasons belong in which category. For example, paid leaves of absence are treated differently from unpaid leaves.