Getting Started with Global Payroll for Germany

This chapter provides an overview of Global Payroll for Germany and discusses:

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• Global Payroll for Germany business processes.

• Global Payroll for Germany integrations.

• Global Payroll for Germany implementation.

Global Payroll for Germany Overview

Global Payroll for Germany delivers elements, rules, pages, processes, and reports that work with the Global Payroll core application to form a complete payroll package for Germany. You can define basic and non-basic earnings, as well as extra period payments and overtime. You can define deductions, such as union fees and garnishments. With Global Payroll for Germany, you can calculate employer and employee social security contributions. You can process loans and advances. You can track absence and vacation balances for employees. With Global Payroll for Germany, you can calculate termination pay, generate payslips, and process banking for employees.

Global Payroll for Germany Business Processes

Global Payroll for Germany supports the following business processes:

• Taxes.

  The system enables you to maintain and report a variety of tax data about your employees and tax regulations including information about tax offices, units, church tax, general employee tax data, tax card data, and employee carryover pages. Global Payroll for Germany also enables you to preform advanced calculations such as lump-sum taxes, cash method taxes, annual income calculations, as well as administer double taxation and global assignments.

  See Working with Taxes.

• Social Insurance.

  Global Payroll for Germany provides variables, formulas, earnings and deductions, and other rules to calculate and track all aspects of social insurance premium. The system calculates health insurance premiums, pensions insurance premiums, unemployment, and nursing care premiums. It also calculates and tracks average monthly remuneration to support the regular decision process and to identify employees subject to occasional revision. A set of social insurance reports helps you complete your social insurance business process.

  See Managing Social Insurance.

• Old-Age Part-Time Employment.

  This application calculates the statutory and voluntary gross increases, as well as statutory and voluntary difference amounts for pension insurance.

  See Managing Old Age Part-Time Employment.

• Absences.

  PeopleSoft delivers pre-defined rules for processing absences. You may modify some of the absence rules and create new ones to reflect you organization's policies, the specific requirements of tariff contracts, work agreements, and employment contracts.

  See Working with Absence Rules.

• Payslips.

  Global Payroll for Germany enables you to print payslips for monthly salaries and bonuses. Because the format of payslips varies greatly from one organization to another, we provide one format as an example. We also provide a template that enables you to customize the format to accommodate the payslip style your organization uses. You can also print a message on the payslip to an individual payee or groups of payees.

  See Setting Up Payslips.

• Banking.

  Global Payroll for Germany supports electronic transfers from multiple organization accounts to multiple payee accounts. For each payee, you can define the distribution amounts to multiple banks separately for salary and bonus. We provide the direct deposit file in a common format used by all banks in Germany.

  See Setting Up Banking.

• Data Entry and Transfer Ordinance (DEUEV).

  This application gives you the tools for meeting all DEUEV reporting requirements. It tracks reportable business events, enables you to view events, and produces necessary DEUEV reports and data files.

  See Managing DEUEV.

• Garnishments.

  Global Payroll for Germany helps you process all the employer tasks involved in handling garnishments. The system determines the correct garnishment amounts, generates the corresponding deductions, and creates bank transfer data.

  See Setting Up Garnishments.

• Direct Insurance.

  Global Payroll for Germany enables you to manage data for the following types of direct insurance: capital life, term life, combined capital and term, retirement, pension insurance with capital options, accident and employment disability insurance with guaranteed premium fund, supplemental accident insurance combined with life insurance, employment disability insurance combined with life insurance, and variable life insurance.

  See Defining Direct Insurance.

• Pension Insurance Association of the German Banks and Banking Industry (BVV) Pension Funds.

  The system enables you to create contribution statements using an electronic data interchange notification, report bank and retro payments, and process employee contributions to other types of insurance, such as supplemental insurance policies, voluntary insurance policies, and voluntary differential payments towards existing basic insurance policies.

  See Managing BVV Funds.

We cover these business processes in the business process chapters of this PeopleBook.

Global Payroll for Germany Integrations

Global Payroll for Germany integrates with these applications through the core Global Payroll application:

• PeopleSoft HCM.

• PeopleSoft Time and Labor.

• PeopleSoft General Ledger.

This diagram illustrates the Global Payroll for Germany integration:

Global Payroll for Germany integration through the core Global Payroll application

Integration considerations are discussed in the PeopleSoft Global Payroll PeopleBook.

See Also

Working with Payee Data

Integrating with PeopleSoft Time and Labor

Integrating with PeopleSoft General Ledger

Global Payroll for Germany Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps.

See Also

PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals Preface

PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Setup Manager PeopleBook