Understanding Absence Entry in Brazil

Global Payroll for Brazil delivers predefined rules for processing absences due to illness, maternity, work accidents, and other reasons. These rules are designed in accordance with Brazil's statutory requirements. You can modify many of these rules to reflect absence policies that are specific to your organization.

This topic supplements the absence documentation provided in the PeopleSoft HCM: Global Payroll product documentation. Before you begin reading about Brazilian absence functionality, you should read the topics on absence in the PeopleSoft HCM: Global Payroll product documentation to develop a basic understanding of the concepts behind Global Payroll absence processing.

See PeopleSoft Global Payroll: Understanding Absence Setup and Management Tasks

An absence is any event for which an employee fails to comply with the scheduled work time. Absences must be recorded in the system so that the appropriate adjustments are made to an employee's salary. In Brazil, absences are also tracked for specific calculations such as 13th salary and vacation compensation.

In Global Payroll, there are two types of absence elements:

• An absence entitlement is defined as the amount of paid time off that a payee is entitled to take for each category of absence.

  For example, payees in your organization may be entitled to receive five sick days per year.

• An absence take is defined as the amount of time off that a payee takes.

This section discusses absence setup tasks, absence takes, and absence types for Brazil.

Note:

Procedures for entering absences due to vacation are described in the Entering Vacation Data and Updating Entitlement topic.