Designing Occupational Schemes

To create an occupational scheme, you need to design and define:

• Absence take

  For absence takes, you need to consider how to define the following:

  • Day Formula

    The day formula evaluates each day of an absence event to determine the units for the absence day.

  • Wait days, minimum absence, or linking (if required).

    For statutory absences, wait days, minimum absence and linking only apply for SSP. Depending on your company terms and conditions, you may need to define formulas that check these criteria.

• Absence entitlement

  You need to consider the following:

  • Entitlement type (per-absence or frequency based). The UK statutory absence entitlements are defined as per-absence entitlements. However, you may have a requirement for a frequency-based entitlement if employees accrue their entitlement or entitlement is for a fixed period per year.

  • Conditional resolution formula

    This formula is required for per-absence entitlements to determine eligibility for paid absence.

  • Entitlement formula

    This formula determines the employee's entitlement balance.

• Absence earning

• Mapping

  You can implement mapping in one of two ways:

  • By mapping the occupational absence take to the statutory absence take.

  • By mapping the statutory absence take to the occupational absence take.

• Organizational and processing framework.

  PeopleSoft delivers a processing framework as a template only. You can create your own process lists and sections or modify the delivered framework.

  WARNING:

  If you use mapping, you must ensure that your process lists are set up with the main absence take is processed before the mapped absence.