Create a Department

A department is a division of a business enterprise dealing with a particular area or activity. You can assign workers to departments.

Use the Manage Departments task in the implementation task list to create departments. You can set up the overrides for workers compensation and provincial medical calculations for a department.

To create departments:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, do the following:

   • Offering: Workforce Deployment

   • Functional Area: Legal Structures

   • Task: Manage Departments

   Expand the entry to display a list of related tasks.

2. Select Go to Task for the Manage Departments task.

3. On the Manage Departments page, click Create.

4. On the Create Department: Description page, enter the required information.

   Every time you associate this department to another entity, such as a worker, the location you select here connects to that entity by default.

5. Click Next

6. On the Create Department: Department Details page, enter the required information and click Next.

7. On the Create Department: Review page, review the information and click Submit.