To enter absences for an employee:Enter projected or actual absences for an employee using the Absence Detail window.
Because the calendar holding absence records for an employee is the same as that of the employee's payroll, the primary assignments of employees for whom you enter absence information must include an assignment to a payroll. For absence types based on nonrecurring elements, the effective start date of this assignment must be no later than the start of the current payroll period.
To enter absences for an employee:Select the absence type. The following information appears:
The category of the type.
The occurrence of the new absence record you are entering. For example, if the employee has already incurred two absences of this type, the occurrence of the new record is 3.
The running total of hours or days absent for all the absence types associated with the element.
For absence types with increasing balances, this is the number of days or hours absent with an end date on or before your effective date. For any types with decreasing balances, this is the number of hours or days remaining to be taken.
The number of days absence recorded for the absence type in the current calendar year.
The name of the element that maintains each employee's time taken or time remaining for this absence type.
Do one of the following:
Enter projected dates for the absence. You can copy these later to the Actual Date fields by choosing the Confirm Projected Dates button.
Enter actual dates and duration as days. If you enter an end date, you must also enter the duration.
Note: The Actual Start and End date are mandatory if you are recording absences for sickness, maternity, paternity or adoption.
Attention: If you change the start or end date of a saved absence record that is linked to a parent record, check that the parent record is still valid. Otherwise, the payroll run may fail to retrieve information stored on the parent record.
Enter further information about the employee's absence.
Note: The further information you need to enter depends on the absence type you have selected:
See: Entering Holiday Absences
See: Entering Sickness Absences
See: Entering Maternity Absences
You can also select:
Reasons for the absence.
The employee authorizing the absence.
The employee who replaces the absent employee for the duration of the absence.
Save your work.
If you entered an absence type that is eligible under an absence benefit plan, you can choose the Enroll Absences button to run the Participation Process in Absence mode. This process assesses the person's eligibility for the absence plan. If they are eligible, the process changes the status of the potential absence life event to Processed, and evaluates any standard rates linked to the plan.
Alternatively, you can run this process for a group of employees from the Submit Requests window. See: Running the Participation Process: Absence.
If the employee is enrolled in an accrual plan, the Accruals button is available. Choose this button to display the Associated Accrual Plans window, where you can see information about any accrual plans associated with the type of absence you are entering.
To view accruals:Enter or query an absence in the Absence Detail window, and choose the Accruals button.
If nothing is displayed, run a query in the Associated Accrual Plans window to display the name and category of any accrual plans associated with the absence type.
For each plan, three net accrual amounts are displayed:
The Net Entitlement figures on the This Absence tab show the effect of the absence displayed in the Absence Detail window.
The Before Absence figure is the net accrual calculated on the day before the absence.
The After Absence figure is calculated on the start date of the absence.
In most cases these figures will differ by the length of the absence you are entering. However, if the absence happens to start on the day that this period's PTO entitlement is accrued, the new accrual is also shown in the After figure. Similarly, if any other time (such as time bought or sold) is debited or credited to the accrual on that day, it is reflected in the After figure.
Projected Entitlement on the End of Plan tab shows the projected net accrual at the end of the current accrual plan term, taking account of any future absences already entered on the system. If the employee has future-dated assignment changes that affect his or her accrual entitlement, these are taken account of in the calculation.
Note: This figure does not take account of absences with a projected start date. It only includes absences that have an actual start date.
Example
Suppose Ms. Shah is enrolled on a vacation plan that runs each calendar year starting 1 January, with a gross accrual of 2 days per month. Ms. Shah did not carry over any entitlement from last year and has taken no absences before May.
Net entitlement is calculated for the last complete accrual period (that is, the period that ends on or before the start of the absence being entered). This absence is only included in the calculation if it starts on the last day of an accrual period.
The following table shows the accrual amounts (net entitlement) that would display if you enter four absences in the sequence shown.
| Absences: | 2 - 4 May | 31 May - 3 June | 12 - 15 Aug | 15 June |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before absence | 8 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| After absence | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| End of plan term | 21 | 17 | 13 | 12 |