Understanding Multiple Jobs Data and Calculating Deductions

To calculate deductions for multiple jobs, the system needs to know the job or jobs that contribute salary information for calculating the deduction or coverage amount for salary-based plans.

To keep track of this information, the system uses the:

• Primary Jobs Table, which is automatically maintained whenever a job is added using the Add New Assignment page or whenever a job is terminated or rehired. This table indicates whether a job is:

  • Included for Benefits Administration eligibility processing.

  • Included in the deduction calculation.

  • The primary job.

• Multiple Jobs Options Table, which holds the rules that are used to automatically set the flags in the Primary Jobs Table in response to a hire, rehire, or termination. You can override these flags on the Primary Jobs Maintenance page.

• Calculation rules, which specify how to add the employee's jobs together during the deduction calculation process.

Even if Multiple Jobs processing is not enabled, the system populates the Primary Jobs Table whenever employees are hired; you then have a base of primary job data if you later decide to enable multiple jobs.