Setup Tasks for Implementing Absence Management
Before you start implementing the Absence Management application, review the following setup tasks.
Task List | Task name | Description | Recommended Help |
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Define Absences | Absence Certifications | Configure, review, and update absence certifications, which are requirements that the worker must complete to continue receiving entitlements during an absence period. | |
Absence Reasons | Review, create, and update absence reasons, which further describe the nature of the absence type with which they are associated. | How Absence Components Work Together | |
Absence Plans | Review, create, and update absence plans, which contain rules to define how absence entitlements are provided to employees. | ||
Absence Types | Review, create, and update absence types, which are used to record absences. You can configure rules to determine which fields or sections a particular worker sees based on their role. You can also define the rules of the absence. For example, you can restrict workers so that they can record absences only of a particular duration. | ||
Absence Categories | Review, create, and update absence categories, which are used to group related absence types for reporting and analysis. | How Absence Components Work Together | |
Leave Agreements | Review, create, and update shared parental leave agreements between an employee and partner. The shared parental leave enables workers to curtail their maternity or adoption leave in order to share it with their partner. | How You Create a Shared Parental Leave Agreement | |
Define Absence Formulas and Rates | Define formulas and rates for absence. | Overview of Using Formulas | |
Define Absence Time Periods | Define time periods for absence processing. | Options to Define Frequency of Accrual Periods | |
Define General Absence | Manage Global Absences Lookups | Review and edit predefined lookup values for global absences, such as absence categories and reasons, and define new values. | Overview of Lookups |
Manage Global Absences Value Sets | Manage value sets to validate the content of a flexfield segment for global absences. | How Flexfields and Value Sets Work Together | |
Manage Global Absences Descriptive Flexfields | Configure validation and display properties of descriptive flexfields for global absences. Use descriptive flexfields to add attributes to entities. | ||
HCM Availability Types | Review, create, and edit availability types used to define contracted or other availability for a worker. | How You Configure and Assign Work Schedules |
Security Reference
The tasks that people can do and the data that they can see depend on their roles, duties, and privileges. For information about these factors, see these two guides: