Understanding Delivered Elements
Global Payroll for the UK defines each business process for the UK in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these rules are specifically designed to meet legal requirements, while others support common or customary payroll practices.
All of the elements delivered as part of your country extension were created using the core application—the same application you'll use both to create additional elements and (in many cases) to configure existing elements that are delivered as part of your PeopleSoft Global Payroll system. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application product documentation, we don't reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools you need to define your own elements) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft).
The core application has the following characteristics:
It consists of a payroll rules engine—a flexible tool that enables users to define the rules 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. Global Payroll enables users to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enables users to work in their preferred language or currency.
It provides a payroll processing framework—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 (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).
This topic describes PeopleSoft's approach to element ownership and what this means for the maintenance of UK payroll rules. This information helps to clarify which parts of the system you may be required to maintain, what you can modify, and what parts of the system you cannot change.
Understanding Ownership in Global Payroll
There are five possible categories of element ownership in Global Payroll:
Term |
Definition |
---|---|
PS Delivered/Maintained |
Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft. |
PS Delivered/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 |
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. |
Understanding Element Ownership in Global Payroll for the UK
This table contains an element-by-element description of element ownership and maintenance in Global Payroll for the UK:
Element Type |
Ownership |
Exceptions |
---|---|---|
Earnings |
PeopleSoft (PS) Delivered/Maintained or PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
|
Deductions |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
Earning Arrestment Deduction |
Variables |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
Values that cannot be changed without impacting the calculation. |
Bracket |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
If the customer should not change values, they are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained. |
Accumulators |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained for segment accumulators; otherwise, PS Delivered/Maintained. |
In general, the non-segment base accumulators are maintained because customers can modify the funding base segment accumulators. However, the following non-segment accumulators are not PS Delivered/Maintained:
|
Element Group |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
None |
Process List |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
None |
Section |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
None |
Formula |
PS Delivered/Maintained |
Exceptions if the rule is not strictly legal follow:
|
Array |
PS Delivered/Maintained |
None |
Generation Control |
PS Delivered/Not maintained |
None. To enable you to choose when and how elements are triggered, generation control formulas have been defined as PeopleSoft Delivered/Not Maintained. |