Continuous Consolidation History Maintenance

An employee's consolidation history must not be interrupted. If an employee leaves the organization and is later rehired, you could end up with gaps in the consolidation history. This could also happen if an employee transfers to another job and becomes ineligible for a particular plan but then transfers back and becomes eligible again.

If there are such gaps in the consolidation history, you cannot calculate a pension benefit. Therefore, you must set up the consolidation rules to prevent these gaps. You do this by specifying consolidation definitions used specifically during periods of ineligibility. You associate different definitions with eligible and ineligible periods, using the Function Result page.

If you use the same definition for eligible and ineligible periods, you have zero earnings and hours for the periods between a termination and a rehire. If, however, an employee transfers to a different job within the organization, there may be earnings or hours from that ineligible job. For this reason, you should instead create definitions specifically for the ineligible periods. Configure these definitions so that they always produce zero earnings and hours. To do this, base the definitions on actual payroll earnings or payroll hours and specify a "dummy" earnings code that has no associated earnings or hours.

For consolidated hours, you have another alternative. You can use the same consolidated hours definition for eligible and ineligible periods, but configure the service definition to suppress service during periods of ineligibility, regardless of whether there are consolidated hours.