How You Manage Contacts

You can add a new contact or identify an existing person as a contact in the Personal Information work area.

As a Human Resources (HR) specialist or an HR analyst, you can edit the personal information of a worker's contact if you have the PER_CONTACT_PERSON_PII_MA NAGEMENT_DUTY role.

You can enter the national identifier information for correct identification of contacts with whom you have a personal relationship: spouse, domestic partner, child, adopted child, foster child, and domestic partner child. You can manage your dependents and beneficiaries using the Benefits page in the Personal Information work area.

Contact Relationships

The relationship start date is the date when the relationship takes effect. For example, if you enter your spouse as a contact, enter your marriage date as the relationship start date. If you enter a relationship start date that's earlier than the person's hire date, the contact start date is changed to the person's earliest effective start date. This is because a relationship can't be earlier than the effective dates of the two related persons. A point to note is that the relationship start date isn't stored in the application.

You can view the history of changes made to a contact relationship. If you delete the contact, the contact's own person record continues to exist, but the contact relationship between the contact and person is deleted. If you end date the contact relationship, the contact no longer appears in the person record from the specified date, but the history of the contact relationship is still available.

As an employee, if you delete a contact on the Family and Emergency Contacts page, the application ends the contact relationship but doesn’t delete the contact’s person record. A history of the contact relationship is still available. If you’re an HR Specialist, you can either delete the contact relationship or specify an end date for the contact relationship.