Understanding Regulatory Regions

The Regulatory Region functionality in PeopleSoft Human Resources is for use in performing regulatory and regional edits. You use Regulatory Region to drive PeopleCode edits, perform set processing, and control what codes and values the user sees.

A regulatory region can be any region where there are specific laws and regulations that are addressed by functionality in PeopleSoft Human Resources. Many country-specific transactions are driven by regulatory requirements where Regulatory Region is used for transaction processing. These requirements include areas such as ethnicity, disability, and health and safety. When driven by Regulatory Region, the regulatory codes, PeopleCode edits, and set processing in the system can vary by country and for each transaction .

When your system users enter data into PeopleSoft Human Resources, you want them to use the codes and data that are applicable to the regulatory region that they are working with. Using the Regulatory Region feature helps ensure that your users focus on the correct data sets, making their data entry faster and more accurate.

This functionality is especially helpful for organizations that have a multinational workforce. Consider the following examples where the Regulatory Region concept would be useful for organizing your business data:

• An employee officially works in the U.S., but has a health and safety-related incident occur during a business trip in Canada. Using Regulatory Region in the Incident Details component, your users work with incident data and codes (body parts, dangerous occurrences, diagnosis codes, and so forth), that are applicable to the country in which the incident occurred.

• Your organization has implemented PeopleSoft Benefits Administration and would like to use its automatic eligibility processing capabilities to determine the benefits enrollment options for your U.S. and Canadian employees. Because benefits rules in Canada and the United States vary, you can use the Regulatory Region on the Eligibility Rules table to set up two sets of benefits eligibility rules: one set for your Canadian workers and another for your U.S. workers.