Create Maternity Absence Plans

To determine employee’s entitlement to Statutory Maternity Pay, you must create an absence plan that stores the criteria for processing these absences.

Perform the following steps to create maternity absence plans:

1. In the My Client Groups work area, select Absences > Absence Definitions > Absence Plans.
2. In the Absence Plans page, click Create.
3. In the Create Absence Plan window, enter the effective date, 'United Kingdom' as the Legislation and 'Qualification' as the Plan Type.
4. Click Continue.
5. In the Plan Attributes tab, enter the required details for the absence plan such as the plan name, Legislative Data Group, and others. Enter the other field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Plan UOM	Calendar Days
   Type	Absence duration
   Enable concurrent entitlement	Selected
   Legislative Grouping Code	UK Statutory Maternity

6. Click the Participation tab to continue paying SMP after employee termination. Update the Entitlement End rule to 'After Termination'.
7. Click the Entitlements tab and enter the field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Entitlement Definition Type	Formula
   Disable payment percentage override	Selected Note: This option needs to be selected, as the payment of statutory maternity pay is controlled by the use of certification. This option will prevent users from being able to update the percentage manually.
   Entitlement Formula	ORA_HRX_GB_MAT_ENITITLEMENT
   Entitlement Start Date	Absence start date

8. Click the Entries and Balances tab, and enter the field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Absence Payment Rate Rule	Rate Definition
   Rate Name	Select the placeholder rate definition created
   Transfer absence payment information for payroll processing	Selected
   Element	Select the element that you created earlier for the plan.

9. Click Save and Close.