Payroll Relationships for the US
A payroll relationship represents the association between a person and a payroll statutory unit (PSU).
A PSU is the legal entity responsible for employee payment. Payroll relationships group a person's employment assignment records based on the payroll statutory calculation and reporting requirements. Payroll relationships help you capture and extract any HR and payroll-related data you want to send to a third party, such as a payroll processing provider.
Payroll processing always occurs at the payroll relationship level. When you display the payroll process results for a person, you:
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            Select the person's payroll relationship record. 
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            Drill down to view the details. 
Payroll relationships aggregate balances at the payroll relationship level. Within a payroll relationship, payroll processes can aggregate balances for multiple assignment records. Balances don't span payroll relationships.
How Payroll Relationship Rules Map to Person Types
There's a predefined mapping between each person type and payroll relationship type.
You must use these predefined payroll relationship types. You can't create your own.
| Payroll relationship type | How it affects its person types | 
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| Standard | Includes them in payroll runs | 
| Element Entry Only | 
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The following relationship-mapping rules show how the person types relate to the payroll relationship types.
| This person type | Uses this payroll relationship type | 
|---|---|
| Contingent Worker | Element Entry Only | 
| Employee | Standard | 
| Nonworker | Standard | 
| Pending Worker | Element Entry Only | 
How Payroll Relationships Affect Terminations
You can't terminate a person's payroll relationship while they still have active employment assignments. After you have ended all employment assignments, you can either terminate the payroll relationship or leave it active.