Delivered Elements for Global Payroll for Thailand

Global Payroll defines each business process for Thailand in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legislative requirements. Others support common or customary payroll practices.

This topic discusses:

  • Delivered element creation.

  • Element ownership and maintenance.

All of the elements and rules delivered as part of the country extension were created using the core application, the same application that is used to create additional elements or rules and configure existing elements delivered as part of the Global Payroll system. Because the tools required to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application documentation, the information is not discussed here. Rather, this document briefly reviews the relationship between the core application, which contains the tools you need to define your own elements and rules, and the country extensions, which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft.

The core application:

  • Consists of a payroll rules engine.

    The rules engine is a flexible tool that enables users to define the rules and elements 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 and elements. Global Payroll enables the user to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enable the user to work in their preferred language or currency.

  • Provides a payroll processing framework.

    The payroll processing framework provides 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, such as country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications.

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

The delivered elements and rules of the Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether the elements and rules are owned and maintained by the customer or by PeopleSoft. Some elements and rules are maintained exclusively by PeopleSoft and cannot be modified, while others can be configured to meet requirements unique to each organization.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll

There are five categories of element ownership:

Term

Definition

PS Delivered/Maintained (PeopleSoft-delivered and maintained)

Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.

PS Delivered/Not Maintained (PeopleSoft-delivered but 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 (PeopleSoft-delivered and customer-maintained)

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.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll for Thailand

Of the five ownership types described, two are used to define Thailand elements:

  • PS Delivered/Maintained.

  • PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

The following table lists the elements supplied with Global Payroll for Thailand that are PS Delivered/Not Maintained:

Element Name

Exceptions

SAL NET NM

Net pay accumulator, you need to add all newly created earning elements into this accumulator.

SAL RIR NM

Add taxable earning elements into this accumulator.

SAL RIR TAL NM

Add taxable earning elements into this accumulator.

SAL REG NM

If your earning belongs to regular income, add to this accumulator.

SAL REG TAL NM

If your earning belongs to regular income, add to this accumulator.

SAL IR NM

If your earning belongs to irregular income, add to this accumulator.

SAL IR TAL NM

If your earning belongs to irregular income, add to this accumulator.

SI BASE NM

If your earning is social security fund contribution base, add it to this accumulator.

SI BASE PRO NM

If your earning element will be used to project social security fund contribution in the remaining periods, add it to this accumulator.

PF BASE NM

If your earning is provident fund contribution base, add it to this accumulator.

PF BASE PRO NM

If your earning element will be used to project provident fund contribution in the remaining periods, add it to this accumulator.

SAL REG PRO NM

If your earning element will be used to project regular income in the remaining periods, add it to this accumulator.

SAL ABS NM

If your elements are absence earnings or deductions, add them to this accumulator.

TAX AC ALLOW NM

If your elements are tax allowance deductions, add them to this accumulator.

Note: All of the accumulators in the previous table use an NM suffix. This means that those accumulators are not maintain by the PeopleSoft application. The PeopleSoft application delivers these accumulators for customers to add to their newly created elements. You should use only these NM accumulators whenever you create new earning elements. If you attempt to directly add elements into PS Delivered/Maintained accumulators, there may be a conflict between your modification and any new patches that are released.