Understanding Delivered Elements

Global Payroll for the UK defines each business process for the UK in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these rules are specifically designed to meet legal requirements, while others support common or customary payroll practices.

All of the elements delivered as part of your country extension were created using the core application—the same application you'll use both to create additional elements and (in many cases) to configure existing elements that are delivered as part of your PeopleSoft Global Payroll system. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application product documentation, we don't reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools you need to define your own elements) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft).

The core application has the following characteristics:

  • It consists of a payroll rules engine—a flexible tool that enables users to define the rules of their payroll system and execute payroll and absence calculations.

    Global Payroll does not embed payroll-specific logic or computations in application code. Instead, it specifies all business application logic, such as earnings, deductions, absences, and accumulators, in terms of payroll rules. Global Payroll enables users to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enables users to work in their preferred language or currency.

  • It provides a payroll processing framework—a flexible way to define and execute payroll and absence processing flows, such as calendars, run types, pay periods, and process lists.

Country extensions have the following characteristics:

  • They are built using the core application.

  • They consist of statutory and customary objects (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).

This topic describes PeopleSoft's approach to element ownership and what this means for the maintenance of UK payroll rules. This information helps to clarify which parts of the system you may be required to maintain, what you can modify, and what parts of the system you cannot change.

Understanding Ownership in Global Payroll

There are five possible categories of element ownership in Global Payroll:

Field or Control

Definition
PS Delivered/Maintained

Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.
PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Elements delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the customer. This category consists primarily of either customary (non-statutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although PeopleSoft may occasionally update elements defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.
Customer Maintained

Elements created and maintained by your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained.
PS Delivered/Customer Modified

Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which the customer has decided to take control (this change is irreversible).
PS Delivered / Maintained / Secure

Delivered elements that the customer can never modify or control.

Understanding Element Ownership in Global Payroll for the UK

This table contains an element-by-element description of element ownership and maintenance in Global Payroll for the UK:

Element Type

Ownership

Exceptions

Earnings

PeopleSoft (PS) Delivered/Maintained or PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Deductions

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Earning Arrestment Deduction

Variables

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Values that cannot be changed without impacting the calculation.

Bracket

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

If the customer should not change values, they are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained.

Accumulators

PS Delivered/Not Maintained for segment accumulators; otherwise, PS Delivered/Maintained.

In general, the non-segment base accumulators are maintained because customers can modify the funding base segment accumulators. However, the following non-segment accumulators are not PS Delivered/Maintained:

  • Accumulators for loans and garnishments.

  • Generic accumulators.

  • Accumulators for benefits in kind.

Element Group

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None

Process List

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None

Section

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None

Formula

PS Delivered/Maintained

Exceptions if the rule is not strictly legal follow:

  • Formulas used to create conditional sections in a process list and generation control formulas are not maintained.

    Note: To enable you to choose when and how elements are triggered, generation control formulas and formulas used to create conditional sections are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

  • "Situation" formulas are used to manage specific contracts and are not maintained.

    Note: Situation formulas are used to control how HR fields are used in payroll processing. To enable you to determine how to use these fields, situation formulas are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

  • Most generic formulas are not maintained (except legal rules and specific process formulas).

    Note: Generic formulas are developed as part of the country setup feature and carry the prefix GEN.

Array

PS Delivered/Maintained

None

Generation Control

PS Delivered/Not maintained

None. To enable you to choose when and how elements are triggered, generation control formulas have been defined as PeopleSoft Delivered/Not Maintained.