Setting Up FPS Installation

Select the default value for how you track time. This is the schedule that most employees work.

Select the default value for how often you pay employees.

Enter the default value for the age at which most employees retire. This value is used as the default retirement age when you define a new grade.

Enter the value that is used by the tenure process to search for the next employees to be given tenure. The tenure process selects trainees whose tenure date is earlier than today's date plus the number of days you enter here. The default value is 30 days.

For example, if today is June 12 and a trainee's tenure date is July 1, if the number of days is:

• 30, the process selects the employee for tenure validation.

• 15, the process does not select the employee.

This same value is used to validate promotion probation periods. You cannot validate the probation period before the probation period end date.

The system uses this value to search for employees due for step or substep increments. The system selects trainees whose advancement date is earlier than the processing date plus the number of days you enter here. You can select between 1 and 99 days before tenure.

For example, if the processing date is June 12 and a employee's advancement date is July 1, if the number of days is:

• 30, the process selects the employee for step or substep increment.

• 15, the process does not select the employee.

Select a calendar basis or a Thirtieth basis (30 days a month). Applies to all date calculations in the tenure, seniority, and advancement processes.

Select the date that determines when an advancement takes effect. Values are:

A: At the anniversary date.

B: At the beginning of the month.

E: At the beginning of next month.

Select to have Auto Step Increment at Tenure selected by default when defining a new grade.

Select to have Auto Hire Validation selected by default when defining a new job code.

Select to have Control Reduc Step Length selected by default when defining a new corps.

Select to set up a firm CAE management. This option gives the budget process supervisors a tool to monitor how the budget is managed.

This is a system-wide option. It is applied to FPS workforce administration and enables you to restrict the authorized action list depending on the role.

This value is updated and stored in the system parameters when a recorded action can be notified by an order.

This value is updated and stored in the system when a collective order is edited.

This value is updated and stored in the system parameters when a request is recorded in the employee record.

This value is updated and stored in the system parameters when a new CAE (Commitment Accounting Entity) is created. The system updates this number only when the CAE Control field is selected.

See Understanding Budgetary Headcount.

Select an action code to use as the default in the Initialize Status FPS and Employee Record FPS components.

See Initializing Employee Status, Updating the Employee Record.

Select an action code to use as the default when rehiring employees.

Select an action code to use as the default when updating FPS incumbent records when position data is modified.

Select an action code to use as the default for grade promotion.

Select an action code to use as the default for step increment.

Select a reason code to use as the default for step increments.

Enter the reason for the step increment done at tenure. This field is available when you select the Auto Step Increment at Tenure check box on the FPS Installation Parameters 1 page.

Enter the seniority bonus heading for seniority obtained in another organization.

Enter the seniority bonus heading for seniority obtained during military service.

Enter the seniority bonus heading for equivalent work experience outside the public sector.

Enter the seniority bonus heading for equivalent competencies.