Migrate Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Absences

For the purpose of statutory payments, only ongoing absences need to be brought forward to Oracle Fusion HCM.

You can load more historical absence data for reporting purposes or for the purpose of processing occupational schemes, if required. They will not have any impact on statutory payments for ongoing or future absence records.

The ongoing maternity, paternity, adoption records are loaded using HCM Data Loaders.

Average Weekly Earnings

To check eligibility to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), the employee’s Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) in the relevant period is compared to the Lower Earnings Limit (LEL). The Average Weekly Earnings is determined based on payroll balances. However, unless those balances were initialized, they will not be available in the payroll application. So, you need to enter the employee’s average weekly earnings in the Override Average Weekly Earnings field on the Absence Case page in the Legislative Information area.

Note: For absences starting after the Absence Processing Start Date, it is also possible that an insufficient number of pay periods have been processed in payroll. So, the average weekly earnings cannot be calculated correctly. Use the Override Average Weekly Earnings field to provide the employee’s average weekly earnings data.

You can enter the average weekly earnings on the Absence Case page in the legislative information area. This field is specifically provided for migration purposes:

AWE Additional Data Fields

Field Name	Description
Average Weekly Earnings	Override to provide the value for average weekly earnings for maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave. This override is used to: Check the employee’s entitlement to statutory payment Determine the rate of pay