Absence Setup Steps for Switzerland

Before you can enter and process absences, you must complete various setup steps. The general setup steps are described with the Absence Set-Up and Management Tasks in the PeopleSoft Global Payroll PeopleBook. Following are the specific steps applicable to Global Payroll for Switzerland.

To prepare Global Payroll for Switzerland for absence processing:

  1. Define work schedules and assign a schedule to each payee.

    Instructions for creating a assigning work schedules are in the Using Schedules section of the PeopleSoft Global Payroll PeopleBook.

  2. Define holiday schedules.

    Instructions for creating a assigning work schedules are in the Using Schedules section of the PeopleSoft Global Payroll PeopleBook.

  3. Define or modify entitlement and take elements.

    Use the predefined absence entitlement and absence take elements delivered with Global Payroll for Switzerland, modify some attributes of these elements, or create your own absence elements. This chapter lists the delivered absence elements and describe the attributes you can change.

  4. Create entitlement plans.

    Entitlement plans provide a convenient way to define the amount of paid time off to which payees are entitled for vacation, sickness, accidents, or other reasons that you define. You can base entitlement on weekly work days, age, length of service, or other factors. When you run the absence process, the system retrieves the entitlement plan associated with the payee to determine the entitlement that is appropriate for the absence that is being processed.

  5. Assign entitlement plans to payees.

    After you define your entitlement plans, associate them with pay entity, pay group, or payees using supporting element overrides.

  6. Assign absence elements to payees and process lists.

    As with all primary elements, you must assign absence entitlement and take elements to payees and include them in the process lists that you use when you run the absence processes. (This step is not necessary for per-absence entitlement elements.)

    The system delivers predefined sections and process lists for absence processing. Use these, modify them, or create your own.