Guidelines for Loading Absence Cases

You use absence cases to group related absences, typically those having the same cause. For example, a worker may take two periods of sickness absence after sustaining an injury at work.

In this case, you can associate the two absences with the same absence case for ease of management. This topic describes how to load Absence Case objects for a worker using HCM Data Loader. Use the AbsenceCase.dat file

Absence Categories

If you associate an absence case with an absence category, then all absences in the case must have the same category. If you specify no category for the absence case, then you can associate any type of absence with the absence case. You define absence categories using the Manage Absence Categories task in the Absence Administration work area.

Loading Absence Cases

These records must exist in Oracle HCM Cloud before you can create an absence case that refers to them:

• Absence category, if you're using categories

• Worker and work relationship

• Worker assignment, if absences are specific to the assignment

• Absence records

Deleting Absence Cases

You can delete Absence Case objects using HCM Data Loader. To identify the record to be deleted, supply the AbsenceCaseCode attribute.