1. Using Global Human Resources
  2. Work Relationships

Work Relationships

A work relationship defines how a person and legal employer are related.

The work relationship is created when you use any of these processes:

  • Hire

  • Rehire

  • Global Transfer

  • Global Temporary Assignment

  • Create Work Relationship

You select the worker type and legal employer values when you create the work relationship of a person.

Note: You can't change the worker type or legal employer after you create the work relationship. To change either of these values, you need to cancel the work relationship and repeat the process to create the work relationship. For more information, search for these document IDs on My Oracle Support: 1595810.1 and 1633860.1

Worker Types

Each worker type is denoted by its alphabet value in the ASSIGNMENT_TYPE and PERIOD_TYPE columns of the PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_M and PER_PERIODS_OF_SERVICE tables respectively. For example, pending worker is denoted by P, employee by E, contingent worker by C, nonworker by N, and offer by O.

Worker Type

Description

Pending Worker

A person who will be hired as an employee or contingent worker and for whom you create a person record prior to the hire or start date. When the hire is finalized, you convert the pending worker to the proposed worker type.

You can create a pending worker work relationship in these scenarios:

  • For a new worker, as part of their hire.

  • For an ex-worker, as part of their rehire or renew placement.

  • For an existing worker, as part of their new job in a different legal employer or for a different worker type in the same legal employer.

Note: A pending worker work relationship can't be created for an existing worker who has a job offer in Oracle Recruiting Cloud.

Employee

A person who typically has a permanent relationship with the organization.

Contingent Worker

A nonemployee, for example, contract worker or temporary worker.

Nonworker
A person having a nonwork relationship with a legal employer, for example, a volunteer or retiree. The work relationship defines the details of the association.
Note:
  • Nonworkers can't be selected as Department Managers or Cost Center Managers on the Manage Departments setup page.
  • Nonworkers aren't displayed on the position hierarchy.
  • Nonworkers aren’t considered as incumbents on a position. So, the validation for number of incumbents in a position doesn’t include nonworkers.
  • Nonworkers can't be assigned Journeys or Checklists.

Offer

A person having an offer assignment in the organization.

Note: This worker type is available only if you're using Oracle Recruiting Cloud and an offer is created for the candidate.

Nonworker Types

You can't create new nonworker types. You can only associate an existing system person type as a nonworker type. You can do this by adding the system person type lookup code as a lookup code in the PER_NON_WORKER_TYPES lookup type. You can view the list of predefined system person types and lookup codes using the SYSTEM_PERSON_TYPE lookup type. However, you can't add new lookup codes to the SYSTEM_PERSON_TYPE lookup type.

Primary Work Relationship

The primary work relationship and assignment are the most significant for a person in terms of working hours, assignment status, pay, benefits, and many other aspects. When you need information about a person from a single work relationship, you look at the primary work relationship. For example, when you need a single worker type for a person for reporting purposes, the primary work relationship provides it.

Here are some facts about primary work relationships:

  • A person can have only one primary work relationship. All other work relationships are nonprimary.

  • A person's first work relationship is the primary relationship by default. An exception is the pending worker work relationship that's created as nonprimary by default. If you're using Oracle Recruiting Cloud and create job offers for candidates, then the offer work relationship is also created as nonprimary by default.

  • When a person has multiple work relationships, the overall primary assignment is the primary assignment in the primary work relationship.

  • If a person has multiple work relationships, you can't terminate the primary work relationship until you select a different primary relationship. This restriction exists because a person can't be without a primary work relationship at any time.

If a person has two work relationships, you can make their nonprimary work relationship as primary by using the Work Relationship quick action on the My Client Groups tab.

Rehires

When a person leaves the organization, you terminate their work relationship. The work relationship becomes inactive but the person record remains active. So when you rehire the person, the application identifies the person and lets you select the existing person and create a new work relationship (for example, pending worker, employee, or contingent worker).

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