Oracle HRMS provides a series of reports to calculate various periods of service based on previous employment and other criteria. The reports calculate different periods of service using rules defined in tariff contracts.
The period of service calculations are particularly important within Public Sector organizations as the calculations often determine an employee's remuneration and benefits such as leave entitlement or bonus payments.
Oracle HRMS currently provides the following period of service calculations:
General length of service with current employer
Length of service in the Public Sector
Length of service in grade
Length of service in step
Length of service in assignment
Length of service for jubilee money
Length of service for BDA allowance
Run the period of service reports using the Report: Period of Employment self service function.
Situations are events or breaks in an employee's service. For example, you may create situations for parental leave or unpaid leave. Particular situations may have an impact on the calculation of lengths of service. For example, parental leave may be counted in one length of service calculation, but not in another. You define these situations under the following situation types:
Absence
Assignment Status
Military Service
Previous Employment
Person Information
For example, you would create the parental leave and unpaid leave situations in the Absence situation type. The parental leave situation could be included in the Length of Service in Grade calculation but excluded from the Length of Service for Jubilee Allowance calculation.
When you define situations, you enter the following information:
Length of service calculation
Employee type
Entitlement - whether the situation has any effect on the length of service calculation
Entitlement value - if the entitlement has a particular value in the length of service calculation, for example, 50%
Some assignment statuses are not valid for length of service calculations. For example, if an assignment has the status Terminate Assignment, it could be the case that the assignment should not be counted in length of service calculations.
You specify which length of service calculations are valid for an assignment using the Length of Service Types assignment extra information type.
See: Assignment Extra Information Types
You enter information on an employee's previous employment using the Previous Employment form.
See: Entering Previous Employment Details
In some cases, it may be necessary to define a correcting factor to calculate an accurate length of service. You record the correcting factors at the person level using the Period of Employment person extra information type.