Assignment and Salary Actions and Action Reasons in Grade Step Progression Processing

When you run the Run Grade Step Progression and Synchronize Grade Step Rates processes, specify the actions and action reasons to use for the updated assignment and salary.

There’s one delivered action for assignments and two delivered actions for salaries. You can use these actions, or you can optionally set up custom actions. To set up custom actions for grade step progression processes, use the Configure Actions task and the Grade Step Progression action type. The Grade Step Progression action type doesn't use these values, so you can leave them blank: Used in Contract, Country, Role, and Reorganization Related.

How the Processes Decide the Action and Action Reason to Use

The processes follow this hierarchy to get the values for action and action reason:

• If you select an assignment action when you submit the process, the process uses that action and the selected action reason. If you leave the action reason blank, assignments won't have an action reason.
• If you select a salary action when you submit the process, the process uses that action and the selected action reason. If you leave the action reason blank, salaries won't have an action reason.
• If you don't select an assignment action when you submit the process, the process uses the assignment action and action reason defined on the progression grade ladder.
• If you don't select a salary action during submission, here's what happens:
  • Run Grade Step Progression uses the Salary Action and Salary Action Reason from the grade ladder, if Salary Action is defined.
  • Synchronize Grade Step Rates uses the Rate Synchronization Action and Rate Synchronization Action Reason from grade ladder, if the Rate Synchronization Action is defined.
  • If action reason is blank, salaries won't have an action reason.
• If you don't select a salary action during submission or on the grade ladder, the salary action and action reason are the assignment action and action reason you defined on the progression grade ladder.

How to Define Actions So You Can Reuse the Action Occurrence Identifier of the Assignment Whenever a Matching Action and Reason Exists for the Salary Start Date

You can optionally reuse the action occurrence identifier of the assignment whenever a matching action and reason exists for the salary start date. If you use this feature, make sure that the Run Grade Step Progression process uses the same action and reason for the assignment and salary record.

• To do this, use the same values for Assignment Action, Assignment Action Reason and for Salary Action and Salary Action Reason in your progression grade ladder definition.
• If you override the action and reason when submitting Run Grade Step Progression, make sure to select the same values for assignment and salary.
• The values you select for Synchronize Grade Step Rates don't matter, because this process only updates salary and not assignment.

Delivered Actions for Grade Step Progression

There are three delivered actions for the Grade Step Progression action type. There are some limitations on the use of these actions.

Delivered Action	Applicable Process	Comments
Automated Grade Step Progression	Run Grade Step Progression	Can't use with the Synchronize Grade Step Rates process.
Grade Step Rate Synchronization	Synchronize Grade Step Rates	Can't use with the Run Grade Step Progression process.
Grade Step Change	NA	Used in prior releases on classic pages to default salary from grade ladder rates. The feature is decommissioned, but the action remains for use in historical data.