Organization classifications define the purpose of an organization and its functionality within Oracle HRMS. The classifications you assign to an organization control the additional information you can set up at the organization level. The Configuration Workbench automatically assigns the appropriate classifications to the organizations it creates.
For more information on the key organization structures you use to represent your enterprise, see: Key Concepts for Representing Enterprises
You can define one organization with multiple classifications or you can define separate organizations to represent different types of entity. For example, you can classify an organization as a legal entity as well as an HR organization if it's the same organization. If they are different, then you create two organizations.
Note: Oracle HRMS enables you to install your own additional information types for classifications.
You can select the following classifications in the Organization window, depending on your legislation:
All legislations can use the following classifications:
Business Group: Use this classification to group, manage, and control access to data in accordance with the rules and reporting requirements of a country.
Operating Company: An operating company represents a division or line of business within your enterprise that is legally registered for reporting in at least one country.
GRE/Legal Entity: Use this classification to represent the following organizations:
Ultimate Legal Entity: this represents the enterprise, and typically, the enterprise is the highest (global) level of a business organization.
Legal Entity: this represents the designated legal employer for all employment-related activities. The legal authorities in a country recognize this organization as a separate employer. In an organization hierarchy, a legal entity may report to an operating company or to the ultimate legal entity.
Consolidated Legal Entity: this organization acts on behalf of multiple operating companies that are not legally registered, or simply on behalf of the enterprise in a country.
For Chinese users only: Your organization hierarchy must contain at least one GRE with corporate and employer information. Statutory reporting requires this information.
Employer: Use this along with the GRE/Legal Entity classification to define an organization as a legal entity that is responsible for employing people in a particular country.
For Indian users only: Your organization hierarchy must contain at least one GRE with income tax, challan bank, tax declaration and representative details. This information is used for statutory reporting.
HR Organization: Use this classification for all organizations to which you want to assign employees and contingent workers.
Payee Organization: Use this when defining an external organization that is the recipient of a third party payment from an employee, for example a court-ordered payment. You can then select this organization on the Personal Payment Method window when entering a third party payment method.
Bargaining Association: Use this when defining an organization that is involved in negotiating a collective agreement. A bargaining association could be any organization representing the employees in negotiations, for example a trade union. The UK legislation also enables you to select a bargaining association in the Union Processing window to set up a union element.
Representative Body: Use this when defining a representative body. This may be a body defined in legislation, such as a European Works Council, or may be defined by the employer, such as a Sports and Social Club.
Disability Organization: Use this when defining an external organization with which employee disabilities are registered.
Medical Service Provider: Use this when defining an organization that provides any medical services, such as medical assessments, to the people in your enterprise.
Constituency: Use this to define a constituency to group together workers eligible to vote for particular elections.
Company Cost Center: Use this to define organizations in Oracle HRMS that map to cost centers in Oracle GL. You can set up your application so that whenever a cost center is defined in GL, a corresponding organization with this classification is defined automatically.
Professional Body Information: Use this to define an organization that is a professional body. Organizations with this classification are available to assign to people in the Qualifications window.
Operating Unit : Use the operating unit organization classification if you also use Multi-Org applications. You can associate an operating unit with an HR Organization. The application uses the HR Organization to find the operating unit to which a person belongs.
The US legislation can use the following classifications:
Reporting Establishment, Corporate Headquarters, or AAP Organization: Use these when defining reporting organizations, that is, organizations required for the production of certain reports for government agencies.
Parent Entity: Use this when defining an organization to be included at the top level of an establishment hierarchy. You can then use the hierarchy when producing certain reports for government agencies.
If you are assigning this classification to a Business Group, you must assign it to your default Business Group, that is the one defined in your security profile. If you do not, then your data will not be visible when you attempt to create your hierarchy in the Generic Hierarchy window.
Benefits Carrier, Workers' Compensation Carrier, or Beneficiary Organization: Use these when defining an external organization belonging in one of these classifications. You can then select the organization when defining a benefit, entering information for Workers' Compensation calculations, or recording beneficiaries employees have named for certain benefits.
The Federal legislation can also use the Beneficiary Organization classification.
The UK legislation can use the Education Authority classification to define a Local Education Authority (LEA) that is responsible for education within that council's jurisdiction.
The Canadian legislation can use the following classifications:
Provincial Medical Carrier: Use this to define a medical carrier for a province.
Provincial Reporting Establishment: Use this to represent employees in the province of Quebec.
The French legislation can use the following classifications:
Company: records one or more companies in your business group. A company is a legal entity registered to "Registre du Commerce et des Societes". You must have at least one company.
Establishment: identifies the organization that serves as the legal point of contact for settling any disputes and manages the personal details of the workforce.
Note: Do not classify an organization as both a company and an establishment; create two separate organizations.
URSSAF Center or ASSEDIC Center: specifies an external organization that is a Social Security organization. You can select the organization when entering additional organization information for an establishment. You can also select URSSAF organizations when entering additional organization information for a company.
Insurance Provider or Pension Provider: defines an external organization that provides insurance or pensions. You can select the organization when entering additional organization information for a company or an establishment.
OPACIF or OPCA: specifies an external organization that collects the company's yearly training contribution.
CPAM: identifies an external organization as a CPAM office. You can select the organization when entering employment information in the People window.
Public Sector Other External Organization: records details of the various types of external organizations with whom public-sector companies deal. Be sure to create organizations with this classification as external organizations.
Grouping of Employers: identifies the employers (normally establishments) who have decided to group together to make it easier to lend each other workforce and also to list the employees, contingent workers, and employees on loan for an establishment from that grouping in the Personnel Registry report.
Tax Group: defines an external tax office.
The Dutch legislation can use the following classifications:
Dutch UWV Organization: Use this to indicate if your organization is a social insurance provider. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information such as the type of provider in the Dutch UWV Organization window.
Dutch Tax Office: Use this to define an external tax office.
Dutch Private Health Insurance: Use this to define an external organization that provides private health insurance.
Pension Provider: Use this to define an external organization that provides pensions to your employees.
The German legislation can use the following classifications:
Budget Plan Unit: Use this to define internal organizations for which you can use for the budget plan structure. The budget plan structure defines the different levels of positions in your enterprise, and the budget plan units represent the different levels as organizations. You select which budget plan unit the position belongs to in the Position window.
German Additional Second Pension Insurance: Use this to record information about the contributions an organization makes to a second pension.
German Capitalized Life Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German capitalized life insurance.
German Mandatory Health/Special Care Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German mandatory health or special care insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Mandatory Pension Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German mandatory pension insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Private Health/Special Care Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German private health or special care insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Public Sector: Use this to indicate if your organization is a public sector organization. If you set this to yes then certain public sector specific windows and fields are made available to you.
German Tax Office: Use this to indicate if your organization is a tax office. If you set this to yes then you can enter additional tax office information using the Others button.
German Unemployment Insurance Provider: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German unemployment insurance. If you enable this classification, you can enter additional information using the German Social Insurance Providers window.
German Voluntary Pension Provider: Use this to indicator if your organization is a provider of German voluntary pensions.
German Work Incident Supervising Office: Use this to indicate if your organization is a work incident supervising office.
German Workers' Liability Insurance Providers: Use this to indicate if your organization is a provider of German workers' liability insurance.
The Hong Kong legislation can use the MPF Trustee Organization classification to set up and enrol employees in an MPF Trustee. This classification allows you to record details of the trustee and details of the scheme provided by the trustee.
The Mexico legislation must use the legal employer classification to define the legal entity. You can add additional organization information for your legal employer, if needed.
Use the GRE/Legal Entity classification to define an organization that is recognized as a separate employer by Social Security or other legal authorities. When you assign a location to a GRE, and you have not already associated them with each other in the generic hierarchy, HRMS will make the association for you.
The Saudi legislation can use the following classifications:
Saudi GOSI Office: Use this to represent the General Office of Social Insurance (GOSI) which the employer is registered. The GOSI office requires employers to make deductions for eligible employees and send all payments and reports to this office.
Saudi Employment Office: Use this to represent an office to which the employer reports the status of its disabled employees.
The Hungary legislation can use the following classifications:
Draft Agency: Use this to represent an external defense organization to which you send employee military service details.
Company Information: Use this to represent the organization which is legally entitled to hire employees.
Pension Provider: Use this to indicate an external organization that provides pensions to your employees.
The Spanish legislation can use the following classifications:
Work Center: Use this to define an internal organization that represents a facility within your enterprise. You use these organizations for statutory reporting purposes.
Section: Use this to define an internal organization that represents the place where people work. You use these organizations for internal reporting purposes only.
Tax Office: Use this to indicate if the organization is an external tax office.
Tax Administration Office: Use this to indicate if the organization is an external tax administration office.
Social Security Office: Use this to define a social security office as an external organization. If you enable this classification, you can record the social security office details.
Social Security Province Office: Use this to define an organization as an external social security office. If you enable this classification, you can enter the social security province office details.
Health Care Organization: Use this to define an organization as an external health care organization. If you enable this classification, you can enter the insurance company details.
The Korean legislation can use the following classification:
Business Place: Use this classification to define an organization as an employer to which you assign employees. You set up information such as the registration number, representative information, and the health insurance number for the National Tax Service (NTS).
Your organization hierarchy should contain at least one GRE/Legal Entity (Tax Organization) and Registered Company.
The Indian legislation can use the following classifications:
Registered Company: Records your company's Legal Name, Registration Number, Corporate Identity Number, Permanent Account Number (PAN) of the company and company's representative details.
Factory: Records your factory's Registration Number, License Number, National Industrial Code, Production Commencement Date and factory's representative details.
Shops/Establishment: Records your shops/establishment's registration number and representative details.
Contractor Details: Records a contractor's details, work details, and representative details. A contractor supplies contingent workers to an enterprise and can be either an individual or an external organization.
ESI Organization: Use this to define an external organization that provides Employee State Insurance (ESI) to your employees. Records your Employee State Insurance (ESI) organization's Challan Information, General Information and Representative Details. You can have multiple ESI organizations and select an employee's ESI organization in the Assignment window.
Provident Fund Organization: Records your PF organization's PF challan information, PF information, and PF representative details. You can have multiple PF organizations and select an employee's PF organization in the Assignment window.
Professional Tax Organization: Records your Professional Tax organization's information, Professional Tax Challan information, and Representative Details information. You can have multiple professional tax organizations and select an employee's professional tax organization in the Assignment window.
Income Tax Office: Records your income tax organization's information. You can enter the location details of the income tax office. You can select the income tax organization in the GRE/Legal Entity: Income Tax Details window.
National Pension Scheme: Records the National Pension office information. You can enter the corporate registration account number and the corporate branch account number in the NPS Account Set Up window.
The Polish legislation can use the following classifications:
PL SII Branch: Use this classification to represent a local branch of the Social Insurance Institute (SII), a public organization that deals with the social insurance benefits, such as sickness allowance, maternity allowance, and rehabilitation benefits. You use the SII branch information for social insurance reporting.
PL Statistic Office: Use this to represent a local statistic office. You use this information in reports sent to the statistic office.
PL Tax Office: Use this to define the tax office bank accounts for the employer and for the tax collected from the employees. You use this information in statutory reports.
The Norwegian legislation can use the following classifications:
Local Unit: Use this classification to identify and report on the different work centers, within your enterprise, to which you assign employees.
Payee Organization: Use this classification to define an external organization which receives third party payment from an employee
Social Security Office: Use this to define external social security office organizations.
Pension Provider: Use this classification to define an external organization that provides pensions to your employees.
Statement Provider: Use this classification to define an external organization that provides reports on behalf of the legal employer.
Tax Office: Use this classification to define an external tax organization.
The Finnish legislation can use the following classifications:
Local Unit: Use this classification to identify and report on the different work centers, within your enterprise, to which you assign employees.
External Company: Use this to record details of the various types of external organizations with whom your organization deals. Ensure to create organizations with this classification as external organizations.
Pension Provider: Use this to record the basic information about pension insurance providers to which you transfer the appropriate pension insurance deductions.
Accident Insurance Provider: Use this to identify organizations that provide accident insurance coverage, group life insurance, and unemployment insurance.
Finnish Magistrate Office: Use this for identifying the authority responsible for processing the employee court orders.
Finnish Trade Union: Use this to record the basic information about the employees' trade unions to process employee deductions.
Provincial Tax Office: Use this to identify the legal employer's tax office.
The Danish legislation can use the following classifications:
Service Provider: Use this classification to record details of the various types of external service providers with whom your organization deals.
Pension Provider: Use this classification to define external pension providers.
The Swedish legislation can use the following classifications:
Local Unit: Use this classification to identify and report on the different work centers, within your enterprise, to which you assign employees.
Social Security Office: Use this to define external social security office organizations with which you coordinate medical reimbursements for the employees.
Swedish Enforcement Office: Use this to define external enforcement office organizations with which you coordinate the attachment of earnings deductions for the employees.
The South African legislation can use the following classification:
Training Provider: Use this to indicate if an organization is a training provider.
The UAE legislation can use the Legal Employer classification to define and enter additional organization information for your legal employer.
The Irish legislation can use the following classifications:
Legal Employer: Use this classification to define and enter additional organization information for your legal employer.
Pension Provider: Use this classification to define external pension provider.