Absences

An absence is any event for which an employee fails to comply with scheduled work time. Absences must be recorded in the system so that appropriate discounts are deducted from an employee's salary. Absences are also recorded to keep track of an employee's absence history. In Mexico, absences are also tracked for specific calculations such as profit sharing and social security contributions.

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

• Absence entitlements.

• Absence takes.

An absence entitlement is the amount of paid time off that a payee is entitled to take for each category of absence. For example, payees may be entitled to receive 20 vacation days per year.

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

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