Understanding Swiss Maternity Leave

In Global Payroll for Switzerland, you enter maternity leave data on a single page. The page generates absence take elements that work with the core application's absence process to correctly process maternity leave during a payroll run.

The system determines the amount of paid maternity leave to which an employee is entitled based on years of service and the canton of residence. After the birth of the child, it recalculates the entitlement based on the Swiss legal requirement of eight weeks' leave after the child's actual birth. To accomplish this, the PeopleSoft system uses the maternity code list set (CH_MATERNITY) to process maternity absence.

See Understanding Applications and List Sets.

Maternity Leave Setup

To set up maternity leave:

  1. View or set up absence take elements on the Absence Take page in the Global Payroll core application.

  2. View or set up maternity absence entry elements on the self−service Absence Entry Elements page.

  3. (Geneva Canton) Set up maternity insurance percentages on the Maternity Insurance Code CHE page.

Maternity Leave Processing

To process maternity leave:

  1. Enter the expected date of birth and last work day on the Maternity Leave page to generate the appropriate absence take elements in the core application.

  2. Enter the child's actual date of birth on the Maternity Leave page to generate additional absence take elements if this birth date affects maternity leave entitlement in the core application.

Global Payroll for Switzerland processes maternity leave during regular payroll runs.

Maternity Insurance

All employees and employers must participate in the maternity insurance program and pay contributions.

The PeopleSoft system delivers a query that you can run to view the names of all delivered elements designed for Switzerland. Instructions for running the query are provided in the PeopleSoft Global Payroll PeopleBook.