Follow these steps to set up Oracle Payroll to process pay for maternity, paternity, and adoption absences.

   To set up maternity, paternity, and adoption pay processing:

1. Select the deduction calculation method to use for all sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption pay calculation in your company or establishment.

   See: Company: Entering Company Information

   See: Establishment: Entering Establishment Information

2. Link the predefined element FR_MAP_INFORMATION. You can also link the other predefined elements if you want to set up costing information.

   See: Elements, Formulas, and Balances for Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Pay

   See: Defining Element Links

3. On your user-defined elements (such as Earnings) use the Balance Feed Control window to check the predefined secondary classifications. The following classifications feed balances used in calculating maternity, paternity, and adoption pay. By default, the first two will appear in the Balance Feed Control window for elements in certain primary classifications, and the third will not.

   • MAP IJSS Reference Salary

   • Sickness Deduction Reference Salary

   • MAP Target_<name of primary classification>

   If you do not want the element to feed these balances, delete the classification rules, which removes the balance feeds.

   See: Creating Classes of Balance Feeds

4. Define the absence types you will use for recording maternity, paternity, and adoption absences. These absences types must be within the seeded absence categories--Maternity, Paternity, or French Adoption--and they must all be associated with the seeded element FR_MAP_INFORMATION.

   See: Defining Absence Types

5. In the User Types and Statuses window, select all the contact types you use for recording dependent children and enter Yes in the Child segment of the Further Information field for each one. This ensures that Oracle Payroll counts contacts of this type as dependent children.

   Note: The seeded contact types include: Child, Adopted Child, Foster Child, Step Child, and Domestic Partner Child. You can also create your own Contact types in the Application Utilities Lookups window.

6. Use the Contacts window to ensure that you have a record of all children who are dependent on your employees. The number of dependent children affects eligibility for maternity and adoption pay.

7. If you add any lookup values to the following lookup types, you must run the Seed French Data process:

   • FR_TERM_REASON_ADS_STATUS_CODE

   • FR_ABS_CATG_ADS_STATUS_CODE

   • FR_ABS_CATG_ADS_ABS_CODE

   • FR_WORK_INC_ADS_ABS_CODE

   This process creates new columns in a user defined table that has the same name as the lookup type. Enter the appropriate values in the new column this process creates to ensure that your new lookup values are mapped onto the correct values in the Absences Report (FR).