Worker Numbers

A worker number is an optional identifier for employee and contingent worker work relationships. A person with more than one such relationship may therefore have multiple worker numbers.

Human resource (HR) specialists can enable worker numbers at the enterprise and legal employer levels, using the Manage Enterprise HCM Information and Manage Legal Entity HCM Information tasks.

When You Enable Worker Numbers

Worker numbers become mandatory in all employee and contingent worker work relationships. If you enable the worker number at both the enterprise and legal employer levels, then the setting at the legal employer takes precedence.

Ways to Allocate Worker Numbers

You can allocate worker numbers in these ways:

• Manually

• Automatically from a global sequence

• Automatically from a legal-employer sequence

You can select different number allocation methods for different legal employers. If you use a legal employer sequence, worker numbers may not be unique in the enterprise. You can't change an automatically allocated worker number.

Worker Numbers for Rehires

If you use a global sequence, the worker number doesn't change when you do these actions.

• Rehire in the same legal employer.

• Rehire in a different legal employer.

• Globally transfer to a different legal employer.

If you use a legal employer sequence, the worker number doesn't change when you rehire in the same legal employer. However, the worker number changes when you rehire in a different legal employer or globally transfer to a different legal employer.