If you have not implemented Grade/Step Progression in your enterprise, you can increment grade step placements manually, using the Grade Step Placement window, or automatically, by running the Increment Progression Points process. In each case, the actual salary element is not updated. You can use grade step placements to update salary elements but you need to write an Oracle Payroll formula to do this. However, you are advised not to use Salary Administration to confirm a grade step change, because this means that subsequent changes to the point values would require updates for all the salary records to which they apply.

If you run the Increment Progression Points process, you can specify if an assignment will be incremented and the number of steps that a placements grade step is to be incremented by.

Any employees who are due increments which are greater than the grade scale ceiling will be highlighted by the application. For example, you may have an employee on step 7 of a grade scale, with a ceiling of 10 steps. If the employee is due an increment of 4 steps, the Exception report shows that the assignment was incremented but a ceiling has been reached.

   To run the Increment Progression Points process:

Note: An assignment's grade step placement is incremented automatically only if all the following conditions are met:

• It is still below the ceiling point.

• The automatic increment check box on the Grade Step Placement window is checked for the assignment.

1. Navigate to the Submit Requests window.

2. Select the Increment Progression Points process in the Name field.

3. If the Parameters window does not open automatically, click in the Parameters field.

4. Enter the date on which the increment becomes effective.

5. If either Yes or No is selected in the Report Only Mode field, the process prints both the Employee Increment Results Report and the Employee Increment Exception Report. If you select Yes the increments are made and if you select No, then no increments are made.

   Note: The following parameters restrict the assignments, incremented by the Increment Progression process, to the categories you select and are optional. For example, if you select an organization, then only assignments with that organization will be included in the process.

6. Select an organization.

7. Select a legal entity.

   Note: In the UK the Legal Entity parameter is not available.

8. Select an organization hierarchy and select an organization top node, if you want to exclude part of an organization hierarchy.

9. Select values for some or all of the segments of your People Group flexfield, if required. This restricts the assignments incremented by the process to those in the group matching the values you enter.

10. Select the name of the pay scale.

11. Select a business rule if you want to enforce an additional rule to the increment process, otherwise go to step 15.

12. Enter a business rule date from and business rule date to.

    Note: The effective date, entered at step 4, must be between the business rule start date and business rule end date.

13. Enter a year from and year to date if you want to specify an age range for the people you want to receive the increment.

14. Select the dependent date category.

15. Select the name of the payroll.

16. Select a collective agreement.

17. Select a person name, if you want the process or report to run on an individual person.

18. Select the qualification type and status.

    Note: You can select the qualification type without selecting the qualification status, but you cannot select the qualification status without selecting a qualification type.

19. Choose the OK button.

20. Choose the Submit button.