You represent your enterprise using key organization structures in Oracle HRMS. These structures provide the framework so you can perform legal reporting, financial control, and management reporting. You can set up these organization structures yourself, or use the Configuration Workbench.
The Configuration Workbench delivers an integrated configuration management toolset for HR systems and assists in the evaluation, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of HR applications. The workbench suggests a basic structure of organizations for your enterprise based on configuration models.
See: Configuration Models for Your Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Once the basic enterprise structure is set up, you add the additional organizations and locations that exist in your enterprise. You define the internal organizations that represent your internal divisions and departments, and you define the external organizations that represent the organizations outside of your enterprise. For example, you can set up an external organization to represent the tax office for which your enterprise uses for reporting purposes.
You can use organizations to represent many levels of your enterprise, from the highest level of organization that represents the whole enterprise, to the lowest level of organization that represents a section or department.
See: Extending the Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
See: Organization Classifications
See: Setting Up Organizations, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
The business group represents a country in which your enterprise operates. You create it as an organization in Oracle HRMS, but it does not represent a specific organization within your enterprise structure, and you do not include it in your organization hierarchies. A business group enables you to group and manage data in accordance with the rules and reporting requirements of each country, and to control access to data.
The critical factors for deciding when to use a separate business group, or an international business group, are based on the following factors:
If you use Oracle Payroll
The number of people you employ in a country
If you require legislative support for Oracle HR
Generally the laws are so different in each country that to be compliant, there must be a different business group for each country in which an enterprise has employees.
An operating company represents a division or line of business within your enterprise that is legally registered for reporting in at least one country. An operating company is a holding company, a company within a company.
The ultimate legal entity represents the enterprise, and typically, the enterprise is the highest (global) level of a business organization. The ultimate legal entity is the parent company or organization for all its subsidiaries and divisions. Oracle HRMS represents the ultimate legal entity with the GRE/Legal Entity organization classification.
A legal entity represents the designated legal employer for all employment-related activities. The legal authorities in a country recognize this organization as a separate employer. In an organization hierarchy, a legal entity may report to an operating company or to the ultimate legal entity.
A legal employer is a legal entity that is responsible for employing people in a particular country. Therefore, if you employ people in a country, then you must have at least one organization classified as a legal entity and a legal employer.
The Configuration Workbench classifies an organization as a GRE/Legal Entity where your enterprise operates in a country, and classifies it as an Employer if you employ people in that country also. For example, you can have a legal entity in a country where you do business, but do not employ people in that country.
A consolidated legal entity acts on behalf of multiple operating companies that are not legally registered, or simply on behalf of the enterprise in a country. You typically use the consolidated legal entity for when you have multiple operating companies in your enterprise, but for the purposes of consolidation, you group the information into one organization. For management reporting purposes, the organizations below the consolidated legal entity in an organization hierarchy, such as, your departments and sections, can report to any organization in the enterprise. However, for legal reporting purposes, they report up to the consolidated legal entity.
For information on how to model your enterprise using the key organization structures, see: Configuration Models for Your Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Organization classifications define the purpose of an organization and its functionality within Oracle HRMS. The classifications you assign to an organization control the additional information you can set up at the organization level. The Configuration Workbench automatically assigns the appropriate classifications to the organizations it creates.
For more information on the key organization structures you use to represent your enterprise, see: Key Concepts for Representing Enterprises
You can define one organization with multiple classifications or you can define separate organizations to represent different types of entity. For example, you can classify an organization as a legal entity as well as an HR organization if it's the same organization. If they are different, then you create two organizations.
Note: Oracle HRMS enables you to install your own additional information types for classifications.
You can select the following classifications in the Organization window, depending on your legislation:
All legislations can use the following classifications:
Business Group: Use this classification to group, manage, and control access to data in accordance with the rules and reporting requirements of a country.
Operating Company: An operating company represents a division or line of business within your enterprise that is legally registered for reporting in at least one country.
GRE/Legal Entity: Use this classification to represent the following organizations:
Ultimate Legal Entity: this represents the enterprise, and typically, the enterprise is the highest (global) level of a business organization.
Legal Entity: this represents the designated legal employer for all employment-related activities. The legal authorities in a country recognize this organization as a separate employer. In an organization hierarchy, a legal entity may report to an operating company or to the ultimate legal entity.
Consolidated Legal Entity: this organization acts on behalf of multiple operating companies that are not legally registered, or simply on behalf of the enterprise in a country.
For Chinese users only: Your organization hierarchy must contain at least one GRE with corporate and employer information. Statutory reporting requires this information.
Employer: Use this along with the GRE/Legal Entity classification to define an organization as a legal entity that is responsible for employing people in a particular country.
For Indian users only: Your organization hierarchy must contain at least one GRE with income tax, challan bank, tax declaration and representative details. This information is used for statutory reporting.
HR Organization: Use this classification for all organizations to which you want to assign employees and contingent workers.
Payee Organization: Use this when defining an external organization that is the recipient of a third party payment from an employee, for example a court-ordered payment. You can then select this organization on the Personal Payment Method window when entering a third party payment method.
Bargaining Association: Use this when defining an organization that is involved in negotiating a collective agreement. A bargaining association could be any organization representing the employees in negotiations, for example a trade union. The UK legislation also enables you to select a bargaining association in the Union Processing window to set up a union element.
Representative Body: Use this when defining a representative body. This may be a body defined in legislation, such as a European Works Council, or may be defined by the employer, such as a Sports and Social Club.
Disability Organization: Use this when defining an external organization with which employee disabilities are registered.
Medical Service Provider: Use this when defining an organization that provides any medical services, such as medical assessments, to the people in your enterprise.
Constituency: Use this to define a constituency to group together workers eligible to vote for particular elections.
Company Cost Center: Use this to define organizations in Oracle HRMS that map to cost centers in Oracle GL. You can set up your application so that whenever a cost center is defined in GL, a corresponding organization with this classification is defined automatically.
Professional Body Information: Use this to define an organization that is a professional body. Organizations with this classification are available to assign to people in the Qualifications window.
Operating Unit : Use the operating unit organization classification if you also use Multi-Org applications. You can associate an operating unit with an HR Organization. The application uses the HR Organization to find the operating unit to which a person belongs.
The US legislation can use the following classifications:
Reporting Establishment, Corporate Headquarters, or AAP Organization: Use these when defining reporting organizations, that is, organizations required for the production of certain reports for government agencies.
Parent Entity: Use this when defining an organization to be included at the top level of an establishment hierarchy. You can then use the hierarchy when producing certain reports for government agencies.
If you are assigning this classification to a Business Group, you must assign it to your default Business Group, that is the one defined in your security profile. If you do not, then your data will not be visible when you attempt to create your hierarchy in the Generic Hierarchy window.
Benefits Carrier, Workers' Compensation Carrier, or Beneficiary Organization: Use these when defining an external organization belonging in one of these classifications. You can then select the organization when defining a benefit, entering information for Workers' Compensation calculations, or recording beneficiaries employees have named for certain benefits.
The Federal legislation can also use the Beneficiary Organization classification.
The UK legislation can use the Education Authority classification to define a Local Education Authority (LEA) that is responsible for education within that council's jurisdiction.
The Canadian legislation can use the following classifications:
Provincial Medical Carrier: Use this to define a medical carrier for a province.
Provincial Reporting Establishment: Use this to represent employees in the province of Quebec.
The French legislation can use the following classifications:
Company: records one or more companies in your business group. A company is a legal entity registered to "Registre du Commerce et des Societes". You must have at least one company.
Establishment: identifies the organization that serves as the legal point of contact for settling any disputes and manages the personal details of the workforce.
Note: Do not classify an organization as both a company and an establishment; create two separate organizations.
URSSAF Center or ASSEDIC Center: specifies an external organization that is a Social Security organization. You can select the organization when entering additional organization information for an establishment. You can also select URSSAF organizations when entering additional organization information for a company.
Insurance Provider or Pension Provider: defines an external organization that provides insurance or pensions. You can select the organization when entering additional organization information for a company or an establishment.
OPACIF or OPCA: specifies an external organization that collects the company's yearly training contribution.
CPAM: identifies an external organization as a CPAM office. You can select the organization when entering employment information in the People window.
Public Sector Other External Organization: records details of the various types of external organizations with whom public-sector companies deal. Be sure to create organizations with this classification as external organizations.
Grouping of Employers: identifies the employers (normally establishments) who have decided to group together to make it easier to lend each other workforce and also to list the employees, contingent workers, and employees on loan for an establishment from that grouping in the Personnel Registry report.
Tax Group: defines an external tax office.
The Dutch legislation can use the following classifications:
Dutch UWV Organization: Use this to indicate if your organization is a social insurance provider. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information such as the type of provider in the Dutch UWV Organization window.
Dutch Tax Office: Use this to define an external tax office.
Dutch Private Health Insurance: Use this to define an external organization that provides private health insurance.
Pension Provider: Use this to define an external organization that provides pensions to your employees.
The German legislation can use the following classifications:
Budget Plan Unit: Use this to define internal organizations for which you can use for the budget plan structure. The budget plan structure defines the different levels of positions in your enterprise, and the budget plan units represent the different levels as organizations. You select which budget plan unit the position belongs to in the Position window.
German Additional Second Pension Insurance: Use this to record information about the contributions an organization makes to a second pension.
German Capitalized Life Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German capitalized life insurance.
German Mandatory Health/Special Care Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German mandatory health or special care insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Mandatory Pension Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German mandatory pension insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Private Health/Special Care Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German private health or special care insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Public Sector: Use this to indicate if your organization is a public sector organization. If you set this to yes then certain public sector specific windows and fields are made available to you.
German Tax Office: Use this to indicate if your organization is a tax office. If you set this to yes then you can enter additional tax office information using the Others button.
German Unemployment Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German unemployment insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Voluntary Pension Provider: Use this to indicator if your organization is a provider of German voluntary pensions.
German Work Incident Supervising Office: Use this to indicate if your organization is a work incident supervising office.
German Workers' Liability Insurance Providers: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German workers' liability insurance.
The Hong Kong legislation can use the MPF Trustee Organization classification to set up and enrol employees in an MPF Trustee. This classification allows you to record details of the trustee and details of the scheme provided by the trustee.
The Mexico legislation must use the legal employer classification to define the legal entity. You can add additional organization information for your legal employer, if needed.
Use the GRE/Legal Entity classification to define an organization that is recognized as a separate employer by Social Security or other legal authorities. When you assign a location to a GRE, and you have not already associated them with each other in the generic hierarchy, HRMS will make the association for you.
The Saudi legislation can use the following classifications:
Saudi GOSI Office: Use this to represent the General Office of Social Insurance (GOSI) which the employer is registered. The GOSI office requires employers to make deductions for eligible employees and send all payments and reports to this office.
Saudi Employment Office: Use this to represent an office to which the employer reports the status of its disabled employees.
The Hungary legislation can use the following classifications:
Draft Agency: Use this to represent an external defense organization to which you send employee military service details.
Company Information: Use this to represent the organization which is legally entitled to hire employees.
Pension Provider: Use this to indicate an external organization that provides pensions to your employees.
The Spanish legislation can use the following classifications:
Work Center: Use this to define an internal organization that represents a facility within your enterprise. You use these organizations for statutory reporting purposes.
Section: Use this to define an internal organization that represents the place where people work. You use these organizations for internal reporting purposes only.
Tax Office: Use this to indicate if the organization is an external tax office.
Tax Administration Office: Use this to indicate if the organization is an external tax administration office.
Social Security Office: Use this to define a social security office as an external organization. If you enable this classification, you can record the social security office details.
Social Security Province Office: Use this to define an organization as an external social security office. If you enable this classification, you can enter the social security province office details.
Health Care Organization: Use this to define an organization as an external health care organization. If you enable this classification, you can enter the insurance company details.
The Korean legislation can use the following classification:
Business Place: Use this classification to define an organization as an employer to which you assign employees. You set up information such as the registration number, representative information, and the health insurance number for the National Tax Service (NTS).
Your organization hierarchy should contain at least one GRE/Legal Entity (Tax Organization) and Registered Company.
The Indian legislation can use the following classifications:
Registered Company: Records your company's Legal Name, Registration Number, Corporate Identity Number, Permanent Account Number (PAN) of the company and company's representative details.
Factory: Records your factory's Registration Number, License Number, National Industrial Code, Production Commencement Date and factory's representative details.
Shops/Establishment: Records your shops/establishment's registration number and representative details.
Contractor Details: Records a contractor's details, work details, and representative details. A contractor supplies contingent workers to an enterprise and can be either an individual or an external organization.
ESI Organization: Use this to define an external organization that provides Employee State Insurance (ESI) to your employees. Records your Employee State Insurance (ESI) organization's Challan Information, General Information and Representative Details. You can have multiple ESI organizations and select an employee's ESI organization in the Assignment window.
Provident Fund Organization: Records your PF organization's PF challan information, PF information, and PF representative details. You can have multiple PF organizations and select an employee's PF organization in the Assignment window.
Professional Tax Organization: Records your Professional Tax organization's information, Professional Tax Challan information, and Representative Details information. You can have multiple professional tax organizations and select an employee's professional tax organization in the Assignment window.
Income Tax Office: Records your income tax organization's information. You can enter the location details of the income tax office. You can select the income tax organization in the GRE/Legal Entity: Income Tax Details window.
National Pension Scheme: Records the National Pension office information. You can enter the corporate registration account number and the corporate branch account number in the NPS Account Set Up window.
The Polish legislation can use the following classifications:
PL SII Branch: Use this classification to represent a local branch of the Social Insurance Institute (SII), a public organization that deals with the social insurance benefits, such as sickness allowance, maternity allowance, and rehabilitation benefits. You use the SII branch information for social insurance reporting.
PL Statistic Office: Use this to represent a local statistic office. You use this information in reports sent to the statistic office.
PL Tax Office: Use this to define the tax office bank accounts for the employer and for the tax collected from the employees. You use this information in statutory reports.
The Norwegian legislation can use the following classifications:
Local Unit: Use this classification to identify and report on the different work centers, within your enterprise, to which you assign employees.
Payee Organization: Use this classification to define an external organization which receives third party payment from an employee
Social Security Office: Use this to define external social security office organizations.
Pension Provider: Use this classification to define an external organization that provides pensions to your employees.
Statement Provider: Use this classification to define an external organization that provides reports on behalf of the legal employer.
Tax Office: Use this classification to define an external tax organization.
The Finnish legislation can use the following classifications:
Local Unit: Use this classification to identify and report on the different work centers, within your enterprise, to which you assign employees.
External Company: Use this to record details of the various types of external organizations with whom your organization deals. Ensure to create organizations with this classification as external organizations.
Pension Provider: Use this to record the basic information about pension insurance providers to which you transfer the appropriate pension insurance deductions.
Accident Insurance Provider: Use this to identify organizations that provide accident insurance coverage, group life insurance, and unemployment insurance.
Finnish Magistrate Office: Use this for identifying the authority responsible for processing the employee court orders.
Finnish Trade Union: Use this to record the basic information about the employees' trade unions to process employee deductions.
Provincial Tax Office: Use this to identify the legal employer's tax office.
The Danish legislation can use the following classifications:
Service Provider: Use this classification to record details of the various types of external service providers with whom your organization deals.
Pension Provider: Use this classification to define external pension providers.
The Swedish legislation can use the following classifications:
Local Unit: Use this classification to identify and report on the different work centers, within your enterprise, to which you assign employees.
Social Security Office: Use this to define external social security office organizations with which you coordinate medical reimbursements for the employees.
Swedish Enforcement Office: Use this to define external enforcement office organizations with which you coordinate the attachment of earnings deductions for the employees.
The South African legislation can use the following classification:
Training Provider: Use this to indicate if an organization is a training provider.
The UAE legislation can use the Legal Employer classification to define and enter additional organization information for your legal employer.
The Irish legislation can use the following classifications:
Legal Employer: Use this classification to define and enter additional organization information for your legal employer.
Pension Provider: Use this classification to define external pension provider.
Standard employment information or employment defaults represent the employment information that is applicable for different levels in the enterprise. For example, you can set employment defaults for shift type, employee type, and payroll period, to name a few.
You can enter employment defaults at various organization levels depending on your enterprise's requirements or at the level to which the defaults most apply. For example, if the employment defaults apply to most of the people working for a legal employer, you can enter the information against the legal employer and make the relevant changes at the appropriate lower organization levels. The employment defaults entered at a lower organization level, such as assignment, override any information entered at a higher level, such as business group. It is recommended that you set the employment defaults at the highest level to which they most apply to minimize the maintenance of this information.
You can enter the employment defaults at the following organization levels:
Business Group You enter the employment defaults at the business group level if this information is applicable to most people in your country. For example, if a majority of the people in your country work in the day shift, you can enter the shift information at the business group level.
HR Organization You enter the employment defaults at the HR organization level if this information is applicable at the enterprise level. For example, if a majority of your employees are blue collar workers, you can enter the employee type information at the HR organization level.
Legal Employer You enter the employment defaults at the legal employer level if this information is applicable to most of the employees working for that legal employer. For example, if most of the employees working for a legal employer are paid on a monthly basis, you can enter the payroll period information at the legal employer level.
Local Unit You enter the employment defaults at the local unit level if this information is applicable to most of the employees working in that local unit. For example, if most of the employees working in a local unit are permanent employees, you can enter the employment type information at the local unit level.
For Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish users only: The local unit level is only available to Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish users.
Assignment You enter the employment defaults at the assignment level for various reporting purposes. For example, if there are five employees who have been assigned different shift timings from the rest of the employees, you can change the shift timing information for these five employees at the assignment level.
Set up your organizations in the order shown below. This structure forms the basis for defining the relationship between the employee and the employer – this is important in terms of both legal liability and identifying the breakdown for various statutory reports.
Set up a business group and any other non-Norwegian specific organizations required by your enterprise. You can enter employment defaults for a business group or HR organization.
Create your local units (A local unit is the particular industry or location to which the branch of the enterprise belongs) and enter their additional information. The employment defaults you enter here override the defaults entered at a higher level.
Create your legal employers and enter statutory information and employment defaults for them. The employment defaults you enter here override the defaults entered at a higher level.
Link each local unit to a legal employer. You can assign multiple local units to a legal employer. In addition, you can attach the Tax Office and Statement Provider organizational classifications to the legal employer.
Create the social security offices to which you and your employees report. Social security office information is used for statutory reporting purposes.
For more information on how to create the organizations and additional information described in this topic, see: Creating an Organization and Entering Additional Information
Attach the employee assignment to a local unit. You can select any local unit that has been attached to any legal employer in your organization. See: Entering Additional Assignment Details
Attach the organization classification. You can select any organizational classification that has been attached to any legal employer in your organization
Use the Organization window to create:
Business groups
External organizations (for example, tax offices, pension providers, insurance carriers, disability organizations, benefit carriers, or recruitment agencies)
Internal organizations (for example, departments, sections or cost centers)
GREs/Legal Entities
If you use the Configuration Workbench to configure your enterprise structure, then you only need to create the additional internal and external organizations you require. For example, you can set up additional organizations to represent the internal divisions or departments, and external organizations for reporting or third party payments.
See: Extending the Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
To create an organization
Navigate to the Organization window and click New to create a new organization.
Note: For information about querying existing organizations, see: Finding an Organization, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Enter a name for your organization in the Name field. A check is performed to see if organizations with the same name already exist.
All Oracle applications you install share the information entered in the Organization window. Therefore organization names must be unique within a business group, and business group names must be unique across your applications network.
You can create two organizations with the same name in different business groups but this can cause confusion later, if the HR: Cross business group profile option is set to Yes and you decide to share certain information across all business groups. If you decide to create two organizations with the same name, be sure that this will not cause you problems in the future.
Optionally, select an organization type in the Type field.
Organization types do not classify your organization, you use them for reporting purposes only. The type may identify the function an organization performs, such as Administration or Service, or the level of each organization in your enterprise, such as Division, Department or Cost Center. You create the organization types you require by entering values for the Lookup Type ORG_TYPE.
Enter a start date in the From field. This should be early enough to include any historical information you need to enter.
Note: You cannot assign an employee to an organization before the start date of the organization.
Enter a location, if one exists. You can also enter an internal address to add more details such as floor or office number.
Dutch only: If you are setting up external organizations for a tax office, a social insurance provider or a private health insurance provider, you must enter the postal address and contact details using the NL_POSTAL_ADDRESS Location EIT.
Mexico only: When defining a GRE/Legal Entity, if you select a location here, HRMS automatically associates it with this GRE in the Generic Hierarchy.
US only: If you are using Oracle Payroll in the US, every organization to which employees can have assignments, including business groups, must have on record a location with a complete address. This is because the system uses the location of the organization of the employee's primary assignment to determine employee work locations for tax purposes. This does not apply to GREs, because the assignment to a GRE exists in addition to the assignment to an organization.
India only: You can define an income tax organization and enter its location details. You can then select this organization at the GRE/Legal Entity Income Tax Office.
Note: If you are an Oracle Inventory user, then you must not assign a location to more than one organization classified as an Inventory Organization.
Enter internal or external in the Internal or External field. You cannot assign people to an external organization.
Examples of external organizations that may require entry are disability organizations, benefits carriers, insurance carriers, organizations that employees name as beneficiaries of certain employee benefits, and organizations that are recipients of third party payments from employees' pay.
Save the basic organization details.
For each classification you set up you can enter additional information. This information can be different for each classification.
For business group see: Business Group
For HR organization see: HR Organization
For legal employer see: Legal Employer
For pension provider see Pension Provider
For local unit see: Local Unit
For social security office see: Social Security Office
For representative body see: Representative Body
For constituency see: Constituency
For bargaining association see: Bargaining Association
For company cost center see: Company Cost Center
For professional body information see: Professional Body Information
See Classification and Additional Information Types if you need to check which classification to select.
To enter Business Group additional information:
Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.
Choose the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
Business Group Information, see: Entering Business Group Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Budget Value Defaults, see: Business Groups: Entering Budget Value Defaults, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Employment Defaults, see: Entering Employment Defaults
Work Day Information, see: Business Groups and HR Organizations: Work Day Defaults, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Benefits Defaults, see: Business Groups: Defining a Default Monthly Payroll, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
PTO Balance Type, see Business Groups: Selecting a PTO Balance Type, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Recruitment Information, see: Business Groups: Entering Recruitment Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Payslip Information, see: Entering Payslip Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Self Service Preference Information, see: Entering Self-Service Preference Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter HR organization additional information:
Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.
Choose the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
Reporting Information, see: Entering Reporting Information for an HR Organization or a Company Cost Center., Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Costing Information, see: HR Organizations: Entering Costing Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Employment Defaults, see: Entering Employment Defaults
Parent Organization, see: HR Organizations: Entering Parent Organizations, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Work Day Information, see: Business Groups and HR Organizations: Entering Work Day Defaults:, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Payslip Information, see Entering Payslip Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Self Service Preference Information, see Entering Self-Service Preference Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Related Organizations Information, see: Entering Related Organizations Information for an HR Organization, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter legal employer information:
Click on the appropriate organization classification.
Click Others to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
Employment Defaults, see: Entering Employment Defaults
Legal Employer Details, see: Entering Legal Employer Details
Local Units, see: Assigning Local Units to a Legal Employer
Exemption Limit, see: Entering Exemption Limit Details
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter Norwegian local unit information:
Click on the appropriate organization classification.
Click Others to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
Employment Defaults, see: Entering Employment Defaults
Local Unit Details, see: Entering Local Unit Details
Exemption Limit, see: Entering Exemption Limit Details
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter Norwegian social security office information:
Click on the appropriate organization classification.
Click Others to open the Additional Organization Information window.
For entering contact details, see: Entering Social Security Office Contact Details
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter representative body additional information:
Click on the appropriate organization classification.
Click Others to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
Representative Body Information, see: Entering Representative Body Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Constituency information, see: Entering Constituency Information for a Representative Body, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter constituency additional information:
Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.
Choose the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
Location, see Entering Location Information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Organization, see Entering Organization Information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Organization Hierarchy, see Entering Organization Hierarchy information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Grade, see Entering Grade information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Bargaining Unit, see Entering Bargaining Unit information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Job, see Entering Job information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Collective Agreement Grade, see Entering Collective Agreement Grade information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter bargaining association information:
Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.
Choose the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select Trade Union Information, see: Entering Trade Union Information for a Bargaining Association, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter company cost center information:
Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.
Choose the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select one of the following:
GL Company Cost Center, see: Entering GL Company Cost Center Information for a Company Cost Center, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Reporting Information, see: Entering Reporting Information for an HR Organization or a Company Cost Center., Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
To enter professional body information:
Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.
Choose the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.
Select Professional Body Info, see: Entering Additional Information for a Professional Body, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide.
Repeat these steps to enter further information.
You enter statement of earnings (SOE) information at the business group level to specify what information appears on each region of the statement of earnings. You can enter element set names for earnings, deductions, and any imputed earnings to ensure that the elements within these sets appear on the statement of earnings. You can also supply balance attributes for SOE display.
To enter SOE information
In the Organization window, query the business group if it does not already appear. In the Organization Classifications region, select Business Group, click Others, and select SOE information
Click in a field of the Additional Organization Information window to open the SOE Information window.
Select the SOE user category. You use this information to restrict the type of users who can view the SOE.
Select the Earnings element set in the Elements 1 field. (The set name typically begins with a legislative identifier, and then incorporates SOE EARNINGS as the next part of the name).
Select the Deductions element set in the Elements 2 field. (The set name typically begins with a legislative identifier, and then incorporates SOE DEDUCTIONS as the next part of the name).
If you have an element set for imputed earnings, select it in the Elements 3 field.
Note: For South Africa only: You select the ZA SOE Fringe Benefits and Other Non Payments element set in the Elements 3 field.
Select the Information element set in the Information 1 field. You create this element set when you set up your statement of earnings.
Select your predefined balance attributes in the Balances fields (Balance 1, Balance 2 and so on)
Save your work.
The statement of earnings (SOE) displays details of earnings, deductions and other payroll-related information for an employee assignment. Oracle HRMS enables you to determine the display name for elements and balances, and the sequence in which they display.
To enter SOE detail information
In the Organization window, query the business group if it does not already appear. In the Organization Classifications region, select Business Group, click Others, and select SOE Detail Information.
Click in a field of the Additional Organization Information window to open the SOE Detail Information window.
Select the type of SOE details that you want to record, by selecting balance or element.
If you select balance, then select the balance, dimension, and balance display name that you want the SOE to display.
If you select element, then select the element name, input value, and element display name that you want the SOE to display
Save your work.
Enter the employment defaults from the Additional Organization Information window. You enter employment defaults to assist statutory reporting at the legal employer level. You use this information for reporting on salary statistics.
Enter employment defaults at the level at which the defaults typically apply. For example, enter employment defaults at the business level if these defaults apply to most people in a country. Enter them at lower levels of the organizations if the defaults tend to differ at those levels. The defaults that you enter at a lower level in the organization overrides defaults entered at higher levels.
To enter employment defaults
In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Business Group, HR Organization, Legal Employer, or Norwegian Local Unit, click Others, and select Employment Defaults.
Click in the Employment Defaults field to open the Employment Defaults window.
Select the job status, for example, team leader or apprentice.
Select whether the employment is full-time or part-time.
Select the payroll period. This information is not related to the payroll period that you define as part of your payroll.
Select the condition of employment, either permanent or temporary.
Enter the agreed number of working hours. You must enter the number of hours as a three-digit number. You must multiply the number of hours by 10. For example, if the agreed working hours are 36.5 hours per week, you must enter the value as 365.
Save your work.
Enter the local unit details from the Additional Organization Information window. Use the Local Unit Details window to record details about organizations classified as a local unit. The local unit represents the enterprise's particular industry or location. The area of business of the local unit determines the calculation method to be used for employer contribution. Using the Report Separately option, specify if you want the employer contribution and statutory reporting to be done separately, at the local unit level, or at the legal employer level.
To enter local unit details
In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Norwegian Local Unit, click Others, and select Local Unit Details.
Click in the Local Unit Details field to open the Local Unit Details window.
Enter the local unit's organization number (Bedriftsnummer).
Enter the local unit's industry code. You can use this information for internal reporting.
Select the confederation code. You can use this information for statistical reporting.
Select the industry status or area of business.
Select Yes or No for the Report Separately option.
Enter the tax municipality number.
Save your work.
Enter the legal employer details from the Additional Organization Information window. Use the Legal Employer Details window to record information about the legal employer, such as the various identification numbers that your organization uses. You use this information for tax reporting.
To enter legal employer information
In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer, click Others, and select Legal Employer Details.
Click in the Legal Employer Details field to open the Legal Employer Details window.
Enter the legal employer's organization number (Juridisk nummer).
Select the tax municipality number.
Select the industry status or area of business. This information determines the calculation method to be used for employer's contribution.
Enter the legal employer's industry code. You use this information for tax reporting.
Select the provincial tax office.
Select the statement provider.
Save your work.
Enter the pension provider details using the Organization and the Additional Organization Information windows.
In the Organization window, enter a name for the pension provider organization.
Select Pension Provider as the type.
Select External as the location.
In the Organization Classifications region, select Pension Provider, click Others and enter the Contact Details. Now, select Pension Provider, click others, and enter the Norway Pension Details. Select the Pension Type. This is a mandatory field.
Assign local units to a legal employer from the Additional Organization Information window. Use the Local Units window to assign local units to legal employers. Linking the local units to the legal employer is essential for statutory reporting purposes. For example, for tax reporting, you must link sub-disbursement units to the legal employer as local units.
Note: You can assign multiple local units to a legal employer. You must assign at least one local unit to a legal employer to create a full reporting hierarchy. If there are no local units within your legal employer, then create a local unit with the same name as your legal employer and attach it to the legal employer.
To assign a local unit to a legal employer
In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer, click Others, and select Local Units.
Click in the Local Units field to open the Local Units window.
Select the local unit to assign it to the legal employer.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 to assign more local units to the legal employer. You can assign a local unit to only one legal employer.
Save your work.
Enter the social security office contact details from the Additional Organization Information window. Use the Contact Details window to record information about your social security office. You require this information to coordinate medical reimbursements for employees who take sick leave.
To enter contact details for a social security office
In the Organization window, query the social security office if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Norwegian Social Security Office and click Others.
Click in the Contact Details field to open the Contact Details window.
Select the type of contact, for example, contact person or phone number. You can enter more than one contact for the social security office.
Enter the description for the contact, for example, manager or home phone.
Enter the further detail about the contact, for example, if the contact type is contact person, then you enter the name of the person.
Save your work.
Enter third-party information from the Additional Organization Information window. You require this information to make grouped payments to third-party organizations. You can use grouped payment to pay the third party a consolidated sum after grouping the deductions from individual employees
Important: You must create the source and destination organization payment methods before you enter the third-party information.
To enter third party information
In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Payee Organization, and click Others.
Click in the Third Party Details field to open the Third Party Details window.
Select the source bank account. This is your organization's payment method.
Select the destination bank account. This is the third party organization's payment method.
You can enter the payer and payee reference numbers. You can use this information to identify and keep track of your transactions with the third-party organization.
Save your work.
Currently, the third-party payment method for Norway is not supported.
Enter the exemption limit details from the Additional Organization Information window. Typically, you enter exemption limit details to assist employer's contribution calculation at the legal employer or local unit level according to the employer's industry type. You also use this information for statutory reporting.
Note: When entering the local unit details, if you select the Report Separately option as Yes, then the exemption limit input, employer contribution calculation, and reporting takes place at the local unit organization level itself. The application overrides the legal employer details for this local unit. If you select the option as No, then all calculations and reporting take place using the status of the legal employer under which you create the local unit.
See: Entering Local Unit Details
To enter exemption limit details
In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer or Norwegian Local Unit, click Others, and select Exemption Limit.
Click in the Exemption Limit field to open the Exemption Limit window.
Enter the exemption limit applicable for the industry type.
Enter the start and end dates of the exemption-limit period.
Note: The exemption limit start and end dates must correspond to a bimonthly period. You can enter as long a period as you want, but the period must always correspond to the bimonthly reporting periods, for example, JAN 1 to DEC 31 or MAR 1 to AUG 31.
Click OK.
Oracle HRMS's job definition functions can contribute to the efficient management of your business and, where required, help you satisfy statutory reporting requirements. A fully specified job enables you to:
Select the best candidate for a role.
Position the job within your industry using standard job evaluation schemes and industry salary surveys.
Specify privileges or authorities attached to the role.
When you define a job in Oracle HRMS, you can specify:
The competencies the worker must have. You can copy into the job definition competencies you defined as essential for your enterprise, and you can copy the competencies required for a job to the competence profile of the worker. Thus, you can describe competencies consistently at the business, job, and person levels.
The grades of potential workers.
Work choices, such as work locations and work schedules, that are suitable or acceptable for the job.
Having specified the job requirements (and also recorded the competencies and work preferences of individual applicants and employees), you can use Oracle HRMS's suitability matching functions to identify candidates for roles and roles for candidates.
Enterprises usually need to assess key activities of their organization, such as job evaluation and salary setting, in relation to industry standards. Accordingly, Oracle HRMS enables you to:
Record job evaluation scores. For a particular job, you select an appropriate job evaluation system and record the job's score.
Compare the salary for a particular job in your enterprise with those for comparable roles in the industry.
Specify whether a job is a benchmark job or relates to one. A benchmark job is one that represents multiple similar jobs in reports and salary surveys.
You can define all roles in an enterprise as jobs. Such roles include those associated with the main business of the enterprise, such as sales manager or clerk, as well as those considered supplementary, such as fire warden or safety representative.
Oracle HRMS organizes jobs into job groups. (Some statutory reports require job group as an input value.) For each business group, there is a default job group to which standard HRMS jobs must belong. Supplementary roles, however, must not belong to the default job group. You can define additional job groups for these supplementary roles and for use in Oracle Projects. Job groups you define can apply globally or within a single business group.
You use the Job window to define jobs, the skills that workers require, and the grades to which they can be assigned. You can also enter job evaluation scores, if you have set up a job evaluation system.
You can also enter supplementary roles in the Job window. You can record information about any roles an employee holds which are not part of the employee's contract; for example, fire warden or health and safety representative.
If you intend loading historic assignment details into Oracle HRMS, ensure you enter valid start dates for your jobs. You cannot assign an employee to a job before the start date of the job.
Tip: Consider using a fixed date as a default for your initial setup, for example, 01-JAN-1901. This simplifies your data entry.
To define a job
Enter a start date early enough to handle any historical information you want to enter.
Select the required job group. This defaults to the Default HR Job Group for your Business Group and should not be changed unless you want to enter a job that describes a supplementary role to a person's normal employment, such as a fire warden or health and safety representative, or you are setting up a job to be used in Oracle Projects.
Only jobs entered in the Default HR Job Group will be available in other windows in Oracle HRMS such as Position, Competencies, or Assignment. The only windows within Oracle HRMS that can access jobs outside of the Default HR Job Group are the Supplementary Roles window and the Elections window.
Enter a unique name for the job. If there is at least one enabled segment in the Job Name flexfield, a window opens when you enter the Name field. You must enter a unique combination of segments in this window.
The flexfield that opens is dependent on the Job Group you have selected.
Enter a numerical approval authority value to define an approval level for incumbents of this job. This value is used by Oracle Approvals Management to determine whether a person has sufficient authority to approve a transaction.
Indicate whether the job carries any additional employment rights or is a benchmark job. A benchmark job is one that can be used to represent a number of jobs in reports such as salary surveys.
Save your work and do not complete any further steps, if you are entering a supplementary role.
Select a benchmark job, if required.
Enter further information about this job through the Further Job Information window.
Select the SSB position code. You define the relevant position codes in the lookup HR_NO_POSITION_CODES.
Enter an appropriate work title description for the corresponding SSB position code. This information provides you with more details during internal communication.
Save the job. You can now enter further information for the job you have defined. Note that you can only enter some types of further information, such as valid grades or work choices, for jobs defined in the Default HR Job Group.
Choose the Evaluation button to enter evaluation information and an overall evaluation score for the job.
See: Entering Evaluation Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
If you use suitability matching, then enter your competencies using the Competence Requirements window.
See: Defining Competence Requirements, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Choose the Requirements button to enter job requirements, such as required qualifications or valid experience, to help you match people to roles.
See: Entering Job and Position Requirements, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Choose the Valid Grades button to enter the grades to which workers can be assigned.
See: Entering Valid Grades for Jobs or Positions, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Choose the Work Choices button to enter work choices relevant to the job.
See: Entering Work Choices for a Job or Position, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Choose the Survey Mapping button to link salary survey lines to your job.
See: Mapping Salary Survey Lines, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Choose the Extra Information button to enter job categories for the job. You can link as many categories as you need to a job.
Note: If you have Oracle Projects installed, you can enter further information in the Extra Job Information flexfield.
See: Implementing Resource Utilization, Project Resource Management Implementation and Administration Guide.
You can investigate the job categories in your enterprise using HRMS Intelligence.
See: Oracle HRMS Intelligence, Oracle HRMS Strategic Reporting (HRMSi) User Guide.
Enter any additional types of job information for your enterprise.
Note: You can only access job categories and other types of Extra Information if your system administrator has set them up for your responsibility.
Oracle HRMS enables you to record medical assessments, disability information, and work incidents for the people in your enterprise. It also enables you to link this information together. For example, if a medical assessment is required as the result of a work accident, and that assessment then diagnoses a disability in the person, you could relate these records to one another.
Note: The Medical assessments, disabilities and work incidents functionality may not be used by your localization.
The Medical Assessment window enables you to enter information about the medical assessments (consultations) provided to the people in your enterprise. For example, you can record:
When the assessment took place, and the organization and person who performed it.
The result of the assessment, for example, if a disability was identified.
If the purpose of the assessment is to evaluate a particular disability, whether the person is considered fit for work.
Any work incident that was the reason for this assessment.
A person can have multiple medical assessment records. For example, a person may have a recruitment medical and several annual medicals.
Using the datetracked Disabilities window, you can enter information about a person's disabilities. For example, you can record:
The nature and severity of the disability
The full-time equivalent that this person represents towards your enterprise's quota of disabled employees
The details of the registration of this disability with an official organization
Any work incident that was the cause of this disability
The medical assessment that first identified this disability.
A person can have multiple disability records. Each disability can be linked to one work incident and to one medical assessment that diagnosed (or identified) the condition. Once a disability has been diagnosed and recorded, you can link it to multiple assessments that evaluate the disability.
Oracle HRMS enables you to record work incidents, for example, accidents, that involve the people in your enterprise. Work incidents are incidents that occur:
at work
on the way to or from work
in other circumstances that are defined as work-related by your enterprise.
Using the Work Incidents window, you can record:
The details of the incident, for example, when and where it occurred.
The health and safety official and/or representative body that were notified of the incident
Medical details, such as any injury occurred, treatment given, and medical organizations involved
Whether any compensation was paid
Whether this person was absent as a result of the incident
The job the person was doing when the incident occurred
A person can have multiple work incident records.
The graphic illustrates the relationship between the medical assessment, disability and work incident tasks. It shows the full process that you could follow if you wanted to record:
A work incident that occurred
The medical assessment that was required as a result of the work incident
The disability record that was required as a result of a "Disability" result in the medical assessment
The subsequent "Disability type" medical assessments that were required to evaluate the disability on a regular basis
The "Start" boxes show the points at which you can start the process, depending on the task you need to perform.
Recording a Disability
You use the Work Incidents window to enter information about the work incident in which a person was involved.
To enter work incident information:
Enter information about the incident:
Enter a unique reference number for this incident.
Enter the date on which the incident occurred.
If the incident occurred over time, enter the date on which the incident was identified or reported.
Select the type of incident that occurred.
Enter the time at which the incident occurred, if known.
Check the check box if the incident occurred over a period of time. For example, check this box if the incident was a gas leak.
Select the circumstances of the incident in the Activity field. For example, you can specify if the incident occurred en route to work.
Enter the date on which the incident was reported.
Enter the reference number for a related work incident. The list is limited to incidents that involved this person and that occurred on or before the date of this incident.
Incident Description
Choose the Incident Description tab.
Enter more detail about the incident:
Select the main cause of the incident in the Hazard field.
Enter the location of this incident, for example, if the incident occurred in the workplace, identify the room and building.
Enter a further description of the incident, if required.
Incident Reporting
Choose the Incident Reporting tab.
Enter the reporting details:
Select the name of the person who reported this incident. You can only select a person who is on the system and who is in the same Business Group.
Select the method used to report this incident, for example, a voicemail.
Enter the date and time when the incident was reported. This cannot be earlier than the date and time recorded for the incident.
Note: You must select the name of the person who reported this incident before you can enter the date and time.
Enter the organization to whom the incident was reported, for example, the local fire station or police.
Enter contact details for anyone who witnessed the incident.
Official Notifications
Choose the Official Notifications tab.
Enter the official notification details:
Select the name of your organization's health and safety representative and enter the date on which they were notified of the incident
Describe any remedial action that was taken (or is planned) as a result of this incident.
Select the organization and person that are the representative body for this person and enter the date on which they were notified of the incident
Note: You must select the representative body organization before you can enter the person and reporting date.
See: Entering Representative Body Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Medical Details
Choose the Medical Details tab.
Enter any medical details:
Select the type of injury and/or disease caused by the incident.
Enter any further description of the injury or disease.
Check the box if the person received medical attention as a result of this incident. Then enter the name of the physician and/or the contact details for the hospital that was consulted or that provided treatment.
Note: If treatment was provided by an internal organization or person, for example, an occupational health organization or a first-aid officer, enter the details into the Hospital Details field.
Other Information
Choose the Other tab.
Enter other information about this incident:
If compensation was awarded for this incident, enter the amount. Then select the currency for the compensation amount. The Business Group's currency is shown as the default.
Note: If you enter a compensation amount, the Currency field cannot be left blank.
Enter the date on which the compensation was given.
Enter the job the person was doing at the time of the incident. The list is limited to jobs with effective start dates before the incident and effective end dates, if any, after the incident.
Enter the time the worker began work on the day of the incident.
See: Defining a Job
Note: If the person was involved in this incident prior to joining your enterprise, leave the Job field blank.
Check the Resulted in Absence? check box if the person was absent from work as a result of this incident.
In the Further Information field, enter the dates you reported the work incident to the social security office and to the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority.
Save your changes.
If a medical assessment is required as a result of this incident, you can choose the Medical Assessment button to open the Medical Assessment window and to enter the details of the assessment. If you enter a medical assessment in this way, its type is Occupational Assessment and it is automatically linked to this incident.