When you hire an employee, Oracle HRMS automatically creates a default assignment for that employee. You can view an employee's assignments in the Assignment window.

You can then enter additional assignments for an employee, if required. Enter additional assignments using the Assignment window.

   To enter an assignment:

1. Set your effective date to the start date of the new assignment.

2. Select the organization to which you want to assign the employee.

   By default, the employee has an assignment either to the Business Group organization, or to the organization to which he or she was an applicant.

   Note: If you overwrite a new employee's default assignment to an organization, a window appears asking if the change is an update or a correction. Select Correction.

3. Select the job or position for which this person has been assigned.

   If you are creating an additional assignment, no default business Group or organization is displayed.

4. Select any other components included in this employee's assignment (groups and employment category, for example full or part time).

5. Select a grade for information or to use grade rates or grade scales to determine the appropriate compensation level for the employee.

6. Specify a location for this assignment.

   If a location is defined for the Business Group or other organization, it appears as the default.

   This location must have a valid CMA code assigned to it.

   See: Setting Up Locations

7. Select a Status for the assignment. By default a new assignment has the status Active Assignment (or an equivalent user status defined on your system).

   See: Assignment Statuses

8. Enter an Assignment Number to uniquely identify the assignment. By default, this number is the same as the Employee Number, for the employee's first assignment.

9. Select a collective agreement if the employee is covered by one.

   You can only calculate values based on a collective agreement for an employee's primary assignment.

10. Select the employment category from the list of values:

    • Fulltime Regular

    • Parttime Regular

    • Fulltime Temporary

    • Parttime Regular

11. Select the employee category, such as blue collar or white collar.

12. Enter the information you want to hold in the tabbed regions, for example, supervisor details, special ceiling progression points or salary information.

    Note: You must associate all employee assignments (except any unpaid voluntary assignments) with a GRE, using the tabbed region GREs and Other Data.