Element Ownership and Maintenance

This section describes PeopleSoft's approach to element ownership and what this means for the maintenance of French payroll rules.

Understanding Ownership in Global Payroll

PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France provides five types of element ownership:

Term Definition

PS Delivered/Maintained

Elements that are delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Elements that are delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the customer. This type of element ownership consists primarily of either customary (nonstatutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although PeopleSoft occasionally updates elements that are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.

Customer Maintained

Elements that are created and maintained by your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules that are 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 Ownership in Global Payroll for France

Of the five ownership types that are described here, two are used to define French elements:

  • PS Delivered/Maintained.

    PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Maintained to prevent the modification of elements that are designed to comply with legal or statutory requirements.

  • PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

    Some elements, such as contribution rates and SMIC values, are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained. This enables you to modify these elements without waiting for the tax updates that are delivered by PeopleSoft.

    Note:

    Before applying tax updates or other enhancements, determine whether the elements being upgraded have already been modified by your organization.

Element Type Ownership Exceptions

Earning

PS Delivered/Maintained

Base Salary and Base Salary for AFB.

Deduction

PS Delivered/Maintained

Work Council Tax is delivered as sample data.

Variable

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Values that cannot be changed without affecting the calculation.

Bracket

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

If values are not to be changed by the customer, they are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained.

Accumulator

PS Delivered/Not Maintained for segment accumulators. PS Delivered/Maintained otherwise.

In general, PeopleSoft maintains the nonsegment base accumulators because customers can modify the funding base segment accumulators. However, the following nonsegment accumulators are not PS Delivered/Maintained:

  • Accumulators for loans and garnishments.

  • Generic accumulators.

  • Accumulators for benefits in kind.

Element Group

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Process List

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Section

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None.

Formula

PS Delivered/Maintained

Some exceptions apply if the rule is not strictly legal:

Formulas that are used to create conditional sections in a process list and generation control formulas are not maintained.

Note: To enable you to decide when and how elements are triggered, generation control formulas and formulas that are used to create conditional sections are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

Situation formulas are used to manage specific contracts and are not maintained.

Note: Situation formulas are used to control how HR fields are used in payroll processing. To enable you to decide how these fields should be used, situation formulas are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

Most generic formulas are not PeopleSoft-maintained (except legal rules and specific process formulas).

Note: Generic formulas are developed as part of the country setup feature and carry the prefix GEN.

Array

PS Delivered/Maintained

None.

Generation Control

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

None. Generation control formulas have been defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained to enable you to decide when and how elements are triggered.

Note:

The owner field is used by the Element Upgrader to identify which elements PeopleSoft has delivered and which ones you have created.

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