Administering Tenure Conversion Automatic Actions

Most of your conditional and career-conditional new hires are subject to tenure conversion waiting periods. If you specify this period when you first hire the employee, the tenure conversion automatic action alerts you of upcoming tenure conversion dates and changes employee records to reflect the tenure conversion.

The tenure conversion automatic action, like other automatic actions, identifies employees who will reach their tenure conversion dates within 60 days. After you activate workflow, the system sends messages to the supervisors you have designated to process automatic actions. After the supervisors approve the tenure conversion, run the process to perform the actual changes to employee records—clearing tenure conversion dates and changing tenure types. Finally, you can send notices of tenure conversions to the designated supervisors' worklists.

This topic discusses:

  • Running the tenure conversion automatic action.

  • Changes made to employee records during tenure conversion.

To run the tenure conversion automatic action:

  1. Verify all of the data required for automatic tenure conversion processing.

    1. Verify the employee's service conversion dates, tenure status, and the position to which the employee reports (Reports To Position) on the Employment 2 page, accessed from the HR Request menu.

    2. Verify accumulated non-pay hours that may affect tenure conversion waiting periods on the Non - Pay Data page.

  2. Run the 60 Day Tenure Notices process from the Process Automated Actions USF page.

    During this process, the system:

    • Identifies employees who will reach their tenure conversion date within 60 days, and then creates supervisor notifications.

      After the notices are created, the supervisor has until the tenure conversion date to request an extension of the waiting period. The system processes the tenure conversion if the supervisor doesn't respond.

    • Adds a row to the automatic action control table (GVT_AUTO_ACTN).

      This table records the Employee ID, Employee Record Number, automatic action type, and automatic action date. The system differentiates between the two types of tenure conversions, career and career-conditional. This row also indicates whether the notification was sent to the specified worklist, whether the action was processed, and whether notification of the processed action was sent to the specified worklist.

  3. Run the Process Tenure Conversions process from the Process Automated Actions USF page.

    In this process, the system updates records of employees previously identified in the 60 Day Tenure Notices process, unless the supervisor extended the tenure conversion date. The tenure conversion automatic action performs the following functions on the tenure conversion date:

    • Edits the applicable row in the automatic action control table (GVT_AUTO_ACTN) to indicate that the tenure conversion was processed.

      This row was created during the 60-Day Tenure Notices process.

    • Inserts an employee data row with updated or deleted tenure conversion dates and changed tenure type.

    • Creates a supervisor notice indicating that the tenure conversion was processed.

  4. View notices of upcoming tenure conversions on the 60 Day Ten Conv page (60 day tenure conversion page).

    Supervisors and Human Resources officials can view 60-day notifications online. After viewing online messages of impending tenure conversion, they should verify that the employee will fulfill all of your agency's requirements by the specified date. To extend the tenure conversion period, the supervisor should request a personnel action to change the date on the employee's Employment 1 page, as described previously. If they don't change the employee's tenure conversion date, the tenure conversion will occur on the date indicated.

To understand the changes made to employee records during the Tenure Conversion process, let's look at an example of an employee's data rows.

Effective Date

NOA

Conv Begin Date

Career Conv Date

Career-Cond Conv Date

Tenure

January 1, 1999 = old Career Conv Date

880 = Change in Tenure Status

 

 

 

Permanent

January 1, 1996 = old Career-Cond Conv Date

880 = Change in Tenure Status

January 1, 1996 = current effective date

January 1, 1999 = Conv Begin Date + 3 years

 

Conditional

January 1, 1994

101 = Career Conditional Appointment

January 1, 1994

 

January 1, 1996

None

As the table demonstrates, the system inserts a row with an effective date equivalent to the career conversion date or career-conditional conversion date and a nature of action code 880.

For career-conditional conversions, the system performs the following actions on the new row:

  • Blanks out the career-conditional conversion date.

  • Changes the conversion begin date to the effective date of the current row.

  • Inserts a career conversion date three years in the future.

    You can change this date.

  • Changes the tenure type from None to Conditional.

For career conversions, the system performs these actions on the new row:

  • Blanks out the career conversion date.

  • Blanks out the conversion begin date.

  • Changes the tenure type from Conditional to Permanent.