Initiating and Requesting Personnel Actions

Most of the various PARs are created in a similar way. A good representative example is a family/benefits change request, which is reviewed in this topic. Other topics of this book cover other examples of the most highly used requests, such as hiring, awards and bonuses, leave with or without pay, data changes, and termination.

The only significant differences between submitting the various requests are the action and reason codes that you assign and the data that is entered. Most of the requests involve similar steps: You begin on the Data Control page, insert a new row and indicate the desired action, and then tab to another data page in the same group to enter further information, if necessary.

For example, when you initiate a request for changing benefit choices, enter data on the Data Control page and then move to the Personal Data page. For some requests, such as a leave without pay action, however, you enter data only on the Data Control page.

You can always view data on other pages, and view summary pages, for decision-support purposes.