Understanding Tracking Accrued Service

The Track Faculty Events business process (FACULTY_EVENTS) in PeopleSoft HR offers a tenure tracking feature that enables you to track the tenure eligibility of your faculty using complex rules that you set up.

You can:

• Establish rules and calendars for calculating tenure service based on your organization's specific needs.

• Track tenure-related data and maintain a tenure service clock for employees on tenure track.

To determine total accrued service, the tenure or flexible service calculation processes the changes, such as date of hire, leave of absence, and maternity leave, related to an employee's job status. To determine which time periods count toward service, the system considers the effective date of the job action and checks the rules that you set up in the tenure and flexible service control tables.

Before setting up service rules, set up methods to handle the time duration between the dates that are used for measuring accrued service.

Once you define your duration, date rounding, and date conversion options, you can set up the service accrual control tables to use the Tenure Tracking and Flexible Service Tracking features.

These features use the elapsed-time method to measure the time periods (duration) between job actions. This method calculates the duration between two raw dates by subtracting one date from another.