You can create eligibility criteria you need for use in your eligibility profiles, to meet the particular requirements of your organization. You can use these criteria to determine employee eligibility for compensation, benefits, entitlements in collective agreements, personal actions, and so on.

Oracle HRMS comes with numerous standard eligibility criteria that support common industry requirements for defining eligibility, see: Eligibility Profile Criteria.

You can also define various system-calculated eligibility factors, that change over time, as eligibility criteria, see: Derived Factors.

User-defined criteria gives you the additional flexibility to create your own criteria to meet specific needs of your enterprise that the standard and derived factor criteria do not meet.

For example, if your organization employs deep sea divers and varies benefits to the divers based on how deep they dive, you can create Depth of Diving as a new eligibility criterion.

You create these criteria using the Create Eligibility Criteria page or from the User Defined Eligibility Criteria window. You can access the user defined eligibility criteria from the Participation Eligibility Profiles window or the Dependent Coverage Eligibility Profiles window.

See: Creating your own Eligibility Criteria.

You can define eligibility criteria out of person information by specifying the table and column name where the application stores that information. In the above example, if the application stores the details of the depth to which a person can dive in the table PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F and column attribute 8, you specify these details in your criteria definition to create the Depth of Diving criteria.

You can also define existing hierarchies such as an organization hierarchy or position hierarchy as criteria for use in your eligibility profiles.