Processing a Mass NOA

You can perform mass processing of multiple of employee records for the following NOAs:

To identify employee records to perform mass processing:

  1. Provide the selection criteria

  2. Preview the records and proposed changes for the employees

  3. Take final action to make the mass processing effective

arrow icon   To mass process a NOA:

  1. Set up a groupbox, associate that groupbox to a Personnel Office ID, and assign an approving officer. The application automatically routes notifications, errors, and rejected actions to the Personnel Office groupbox responsible for correcting the action.

    See: Maintaining Personnel Office ID Information

  2. Display the Mass NOA Selectable (Preview) window.

  3. Enter the following fields:

    Field Name Optional / Required Description
    Process Name R Text field to enter name.
    Effective Date R Enter the effective date for the mass change.
    NOA R Select the NOA to perform the mass action.
    NTE Date O Enter the date, which is required for certain NOAs only (460, 472, 772, and 773)

    The Status field indicates the phase of the process. The status is Unprocessed until you execute the action (Submitted) and the application creates an RPA (Processed). If there is an error in executing the action, the Status field changes to Error, as described in Error Handling

  4. Use the following the additional criteria to select employee records. The following table lists the criteria common to all the NOAs:

    Field Name Optional / Required Description
    Organization O Select a value from the list.
    Agency O Select a value from the list.
    Agency Sub-Element O Select a value from the list.
    Personnel Office Identifier O Select a value from the list.
    Duty Station O Select a value from the list.

    In addition to the additional selection criteria, you can enter the following NOA specific criteria to select employee records for mass processing. The following fields in the table for the NOAs are optional:

    NOA NOA Specific Selection Fields
    292 Assignment Status
    792 Duty Location
    800 OCCl Series, Bargaining Unit Status, FLSA Category
    772 Assignment Status
    773 Assignment Status
  5. Click the LACs/Remarks button and select the applicable Legal Authority Codes and Remarks from the List of Values. The legal authority codes are based on the NOA selected in the previous step. You can also insert Remarks by choosing the ZZZ code.

    Entering Remarks and Legal Authority Codes

  6. Save your results.

  7. Click the Preview button to view the run results. Review the employee records that the application lists for mass processing of the NOA. The application lists all employees who are eligible as of the Effective Date. If you have not yet entered an Effective Date the application uses the current date.

    You can view the existing value in the Old column and proposed change in the New column for various components.

    The following columns are displayed for each of the Mass NOA action previews:

    NOA 280, 292, 430, 460, 471, 472, 772, and 773

    Name

    SSN

    NOA

    LAC 1

    LAC 2

    Organization

    Agency / Sub element

    POI / POI Description

    Position Title

    Position Number and Sequence

    Old Assignment Status

    New Assignment Status

    Old Type of Employment

    New Type of Employment

    Old Pay Status USERRA Status

    New Pay Status USERRA Status

    Furlough Indicator

    Old LWOP NTE Start Date

    New LWOP NTE Start Date

    Old LWOP NTE

    New LWOP NTE

    Old Furlough NTE Start Date

    New Furlough NTE Start Date

    Old Furlough NTE

    New Furlough NTE

    NOA 792

    Name

    SSN

    NOA

    LAC 1

    LAC 2

    Organization

    Agency / Subelement

    POI / POI Description

    Position Title

    Position Number and Sequence

    Old Duty Station Code

    Old Duty Station Description

    New Duty Station Code

    New Duty Station Description

    Old Bargaining Unit Status Code

    New Bargaining Unit Status Code

    Old Locality Amount

    New Locality Amount

    Old Adjusted Basic Pay

    New Adjusted Basic Pay

    Old Total Salary

    New Total Salary

    NOA 800

    Name

    SSN

    NOA

    LAC 1

    LAC 2

    Organization

    Old Agency / Subelement

    New Agency / Subelement

    POI / POI Description

    Position Title

    Position Number and Sequence

    Old Bargaining Unit Status Code

    New Bargaining Unit Status Code

    Old Occ Series

    New Occ Series

    Old Functional Class

    New Functional Class

    Old FLSA Category

    New FLSA Category

  8. If required, you can deselect the employees to exclude from the mass action. You can select and deselect multiple records at a time.

    You can select and deselect multiple records at a time.

  9. Save your results.

    When you are ready to run the final results, choose the Execute button on the Mass NOA Selectable ( Final) window.

    You can also run the final mass action from the Concurrent Manager by choosing Process Mass Transfer Out. See: Running the Final Action

What's Next

Navigate to the View Requests window and view the process log for the each record associated with the mass action that is processed. The process log includes the employee name, employee ID, NOA, and the effective date. You can view separate lists within the process log for processed records, error records include the error message, and group box to which the error RPAs are routed.

You can print mass action reports.

See: Printing Mass Action Reports