Payroll Relationship Rules for the US

The payroll relationship rule determines:

• What happens when you terminate the last active employment record for a payroll relationship

• Whether an employee receives a new payroll relationship when you assign them a new assignment record

Employees assigned to payroll statutory units (PSUs) are subject to the Lifetime payroll relationship rule. This rule determines what happens when you terminate a work assignment or create an assignment record.

When this happens	What this rule does
Work assignment termination	When you terminate a work assignment, the associated payroll relationship remains active.
Assignment record creation	When you create an assignment, the Employment task searches for an active payroll relationship of the same type and for the same PSU. If found, it attaches the new assignment to the existing active payroll relationship. If not, it creates a new payroll relationship.