Understanding Absence Data

With the Monitor Absence business process, you can maintain and track both historical and current absence data. This process enables you to better monitor absences for both performance evaluation and project planning. Use the Monitor Absence business process to track typical absences such as sickness, maternity leave, trade union duties, public duties, and annual holidays.

During absence data setup, you must consider the regional (that is, national or provincial) regulatory and legislative practices that are applicable to people, and you need to understand how these translate into company policies.

The Absence Class and Absence Type tables are keyed by setID so that you can maintain separate sets of absence types and codes for different regions, as required by the regulatory and legislative practices of the regions.

Because each country monitors different types of absences, use regulatory regions to process all absences within the PeopleSoft HR system. A regulatory region is a set-sharing entity similar to a business unit, and you associate regulatory regions with setIDs by using the TableSet Control page. The Monitor Absence business process uses the association between setID and regulatory region to ensure that operators have access to the applicable codes for the countries in which absences occur.