Element Ownership and Maintenance

This topic describes PeopleSoft's approach to element ownership and what this means for the maintenance of UK payroll rules. This information helps to clarify which parts of the system you may be required to maintain, what you can modify, and what parts of the system you cannot change.

Understanding Ownership in Global Payroll

There are five possible categories of element ownership in Global Payroll:

Term	Definition
PS Delivered/Maintained	Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.
PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Elements delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the customer. This category consists primarily of either customary (non-statutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although PeopleSoft may occasionally update elements defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.
Customer Maintained	Elements created and maintained by your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules 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 Element Ownership in Global Payroll for the UK

This table contains an element-by-element description of element ownership and maintenance in Global Payroll for the UK:

Element Type	Ownership	Exceptions
Earnings	PeopleSoft (PS) Delivered/Maintained or PS Delivered/Not Maintained
Deductions	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Earning Arrestment Deduction
Variables	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Values that cannot be changed without impacting the calculation.
Bracket	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	If the customer should not change values, they are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained.
Accumulators	PS Delivered/Not Maintained for segment accumulators; otherwise, PS Delivered/Maintained.	In general, the non-segment base accumulators are maintained because customers can modify the funding base segment accumulators. However, the following non-segment 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	Exceptions if the rule is not strictly legal follow: Formulas used to create conditional sections in a process list and generation control formulas are not maintained. Note: To enable you to choose when and how elements are triggered, generation control formulas and formulas 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 determine how to use these fields, situation formulas are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained. Most generic formulas are not 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. To enable you to choose when and how elements are triggered, generation control formulas have been defined as PeopleSoft Delivered/Not Maintained.