Using Action and Reason Categories with Pension Functions

Three Pension Administration functions reference action and reason categories: service, consolidated earnings, and consolidated hours.

Using with Service

Service calculations break an employee's career into segments, based on the action and reason history.

For the elapsed time and hours equivalence methods, indicate which categories of actions and reasons start and stop service. You can apply minimums and maximums for particular statuses.

Hours counting service uses the segments only for applying minimum and maximum accruals. The action and reason history does not control service accruals because service is based on the actual hours worked, as recorded by payroll.

Using with Consolidated Earnings and Consolidated Hours

Earnings and hours consolidations use action and reason histories to:

• Generate earnings and hours for specified statuses.

• Identify partial periods based on events occurring during the period.

• Identify hire and term periods in order to annualize earnings and hours from those periods.

Earnings consolidations use action and reason histories for two other purposes as well:

• You can determine the partial period fraction, the portion of the period during which the hours and earnings are attributed, using the action and reason history.

• If you calculate earnings based on compensation rate, you can exclude pay earned during a particular status.