Delivered Elements for India

Global Payroll defines each business process for India in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legal requirements, while others support common or customary payroll practices.

All of the elements and rules delivered as part of the country extension were created by means of the core application—the same application that you use both to create additional elements or rules and, in many cases, to configure existing elements delivered as part of the Global Payroll system. Because the tools that you need to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application document, we do not reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools that you need to define your own elements and rules) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft Global Payroll).

The core application has the following characteristics:

• It consists of a payroll rules engine—a flexible tool that enables you to define the rules and elements of the payroll system and perform 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 you to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enable you to work in your preferred language or currency.

• It provides a payroll processing framework—a flexible way to define and run payroll and absence processing flows, such as calendars, run types, pay periods, and process lists.

Country extensions have the following characteristics:

• They are built by means of the core application.

• They consist of statutory and customary objects (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).

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

The delivered elements and rules of the Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether they 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.