What happened?
After applying the HR Family Pack K-RUP3 , the P45 is showing incorrect tax code.
How do we fix it?
Oracle has released couple of patches for this issue. One for 11i and a forward port for R12.
7410767-P45 SHOWING WRONG TAX CODE AFTER APPLYING SEPTEMBER 08 PATCH 7246613
7420661-HRMSR12: FWD PORT OF 7410767
Cheers,
Ganesh
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Statutory Sick Pay(SSP)
What is SSP?
SSP stands for Statutory Sick Pay.
Why should an employer pay this to employees?
According to UK legislation, provided an employee satisfies certain conditions, whenever he takes certain types of leaves, the employer has to pay him the SSP.
What are all the Steps involved?
1.Defining the Time Unit
2.Defining the Qualifying Pattern
3.Defining the calendar
4.Assign the calendar to the Business Group or to a particular employee.
5.Define the elements and element links
6.Define the Absence Types
7.Enter the absences for employees
8.This creates the corresponding element entries
9.Run the quick pay and make sure that the employee is paid the SSP accordingly.
We will see all these steps in detail below
1. Time Unit & Qualifying pattern: To understand this, we need to understand the Qualifying pattern first.
If an employee is on leave on Monday and if he is Sick, then we have to pay SSP. But if is sick on a Sunday there is no requirement to pay SSP. So the weekdays will be Qualifying days while weekends will be non-qualifying days. The time unit acts as a component for the same.
3.Defining the calendar
Here we are defining the date range in which the Qualifying pattern is valid
4.Assign the calendar to the Business Group or to a particular employee.
We have to attach the calendar to the Business Group itself or to an employee alone.
5.Define the elements and element links
There are two elements provided by Oracle for SSP. "Statutory Sick Pay" and "SSP Corrections". But they are non-payments. So we have to define our own Earnings element and pass the seeded element's run result value to our element using Fast Formula.
6.Define the Absence Types
7.Enter the absences for employees
8.This creates the corresponding element entries
9. Run the quick pay and make sure that the employee is paid the correct SSP.
SSP stands for Statutory Sick Pay.
Why should an employer pay this to employees?
According to UK legislation, provided an employee satisfies certain conditions, whenever he takes certain types of leaves, the employer has to pay him the SSP.
What are all the Steps involved?
1.Defining the Time Unit
2.Defining the Qualifying Pattern
3.Defining the calendar
4.Assign the calendar to the Business Group or to a particular employee.
5.Define the elements and element links
6.Define the Absence Types
7.Enter the absences for employees
8.This creates the corresponding element entries
9.Run the quick pay and make sure that the employee is paid the SSP accordingly.
We will see all these steps in detail below
1. Time Unit & Qualifying pattern: To understand this, we need to understand the Qualifying pattern first.
If an employee is on leave on Monday and if he is Sick, then we have to pay SSP. But if is sick on a Sunday there is no requirement to pay SSP. So the weekdays will be Qualifying days while weekends will be non-qualifying days. The time unit acts as a component for the same.
3.Defining the calendar
Here we are defining the date range in which the Qualifying pattern is valid
4.Assign the calendar to the Business Group or to a particular employee.
We have to attach the calendar to the Business Group itself or to an employee alone.
5.Define the elements and element links
There are two elements provided by Oracle for SSP. "Statutory Sick Pay" and "SSP Corrections". But they are non-payments. So we have to define our own Earnings element and pass the seeded element's run result value to our element using Fast Formula.
6.Define the Absence Types
7.Enter the absences for employees
8.This creates the corresponding element entries
9. Run the quick pay and make sure that the employee is paid the correct SSP.
Discoverer 10G Download from OTN
There is no direct link to download Discoverer 10G from OTN. The download index doesn't show it unfortunately.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ids/htdocs/101202winsoft.html
Click on Oracle Business Intelligence Tools 10g (10.1.2.0.2) for Microsoft Windows in this link.
Cheers
Ganesh
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ids/htdocs/101202winsoft.html
Click on Oracle Business Intelligence Tools 10g (10.1.2.0.2) for Microsoft Windows in this link.
Cheers
Ganesh
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Retro Pay
What is Retro?
Retro means an out-dated thing from the past which is active now.
What is Retro Pay?
Retro Pay stands for some old Payment due for the employee
How can we land in such scenario?
There are two things which can happen..
1. Incorrect Element Entry Value-Some times we realise after some time that the element entry entered and processed in the past is not correct.
2. Back Dated Salary Increments: The union agreement or the Higher Management decides to revise salary effective from a date in the past
So what shall we do now?
Now that we have corrected the old Element Entry, the next Step is how to give this amount to the employee.
What Oracle Gives me for this?
Oracle gives the RetroPay process but in four flavours leading to confusions for the unarmed.
What are those four?
Here is the list
1. RetroPay by Run
2. RetroPay by Aggregate
3. RetroPay by Element
4. Enhanced RetroPay
Out of these four which one we are going to see in this?
In this entry, I am going to cover Retro Pay by Element. A new element entry will be created with the difference amount.
Sample Scenario
Assume an employee gets paid 1,500 for August.
Now payroll comes to know that his salary is actually 2,000 and not 1,500.
The following are the steps required to be performed.
1. Define a new element which can be used to pay the Retro amount
2. Make sure that this element is Non-recurring and Multiple Entries allowed.
3. Attach this Element to the retro tab of the Salary element
4. Define the Assignment Set
An assignment set needs to be defined with the affected Employees
5. Element Set
An element set needs to be defined with the Salary element(Don't include the Retro Element here.You will get an Error while submitting the Concurrent Request) .
6. Now run the Retro Pay by Element with the following parameters
a. Effective Start Date: This is the date from which we want to compute the difference
b. Effective End Date: A date in the latest Pay Period. The retro entries get created in this period.
c. Assignment Set: The Assignment Set we created
d. Element Set: The element set we created
Submit the request.. And check from the log that the number of assignments processed is correct.
Now if we check the element entries screen, we can see the retro elements getting created.
We can process them as usual.
Cheers
Ganesh
Retro means an out-dated thing from the past which is active now.
What is Retro Pay?
Retro Pay stands for some old Payment due for the employee
How can we land in such scenario?
There are two things which can happen..
1. Incorrect Element Entry Value-Some times we realise after some time that the element entry entered and processed in the past is not correct.
2. Back Dated Salary Increments: The union agreement or the Higher Management decides to revise salary effective from a date in the past
So what shall we do now?
Now that we have corrected the old Element Entry, the next Step is how to give this amount to the employee.
What Oracle Gives me for this?
Oracle gives the RetroPay process but in four flavours leading to confusions for the unarmed.
What are those four?
Here is the list
1. RetroPay by Run
2. RetroPay by Aggregate
3. RetroPay by Element
4. Enhanced RetroPay
Out of these four which one we are going to see in this?
In this entry, I am going to cover Retro Pay by Element. A new element entry will be created with the difference amount.
Sample Scenario
Assume an employee gets paid 1,500 for August.
Now payroll comes to know that his salary is actually 2,000 and not 1,500.
The following are the steps required to be performed.
1. Define a new element which can be used to pay the Retro amount
2. Make sure that this element is Non-recurring and Multiple Entries allowed.
3. Attach this Element to the retro tab of the Salary element
4. Define the Assignment Set
An assignment set needs to be defined with the affected Employees
5. Element Set
An element set needs to be defined with the Salary element(Don't include the Retro Element here.You will get an Error while submitting the Concurrent Request) .
6. Now run the Retro Pay by Element with the following parameters
a. Effective Start Date: This is the date from which we want to compute the difference
b. Effective End Date: A date in the latest Pay Period. The retro entries get created in this period.
c. Assignment Set: The Assignment Set we created
d. Element Set: The element set we created
Submit the request.. And check from the log that the number of assignments processed is correct.
Now if we check the element entries screen, we can see the retro elements getting created.
We can process them as usual.
Cheers
Ganesh
Monday, 1 September 2008
Grade Step Progression
Hi All
I made a presentation about Grade Step Progression functionality to Customers when I was working in Oracle.
You can check it here.
Cheers
Ganesh
I made a presentation about Grade Step Progression functionality to Customers when I was working in Oracle.
You can check it here.
Cheers
Ganesh
Regarding Grades
This is a short note about the Grades Workstructure in Oracle.
People new to Oracle will wonder why we are having so many different workstructures for the same assignment like Organizations, Jobs, Positions, etc.. This is to give flexibility to the users.
Grades signal the level in the organization. It is closely related to pay. For example, in a company two people doing the same kind of work may be paid differently based on their Length of Service and other factors.
Grades are handy in such situations.
To define a Grade we need to give the following details . Grade Name( This is a KFF) Short Name for the Grade (Optional) and Start Date of the Grade.
Once we have defined the Grades like 'Level A' 'Level B' etc, we come to the Grade Rates form.
Here we can define the rates for the Grade in two methods.
1. Salary range
2. Exact Salary
1. Salary Range
We can give the Min Max and Mid value for the Grade. This option is mostly used in private sector as the salary value is not strict there.
2.Exact Salary
We give the exact value for the Grade. This is used in Public Sector companies mostly as the Salary for a particular grade is predefined.
How the salary mentioned here is actually used to pay the employees?
1. We can use the defined Grade Rates defined as database items in our fast formulas
2. We can use the salary range for validation when manually entering the salary in the Salary Administration Screen.
3. We can use this in Grade Step progression functionality.( A more detailed post about this GSP later..)
Cheers
Ganesh
People new to Oracle will wonder why we are having so many different workstructures for the same assignment like Organizations, Jobs, Positions, etc.. This is to give flexibility to the users.
Grades signal the level in the organization. It is closely related to pay. For example, in a company two people doing the same kind of work may be paid differently based on their Length of Service and other factors.
Grades are handy in such situations.
To define a Grade we need to give the following details . Grade Name( This is a KFF) Short Name for the Grade (Optional) and Start Date of the Grade.
Once we have defined the Grades like 'Level A' 'Level B' etc, we come to the Grade Rates form.
Here we can define the rates for the Grade in two methods.
1. Salary range
2. Exact Salary
1. Salary Range
We can give the Min Max and Mid value for the Grade. This option is mostly used in private sector as the salary value is not strict there.
2.Exact Salary
We give the exact value for the Grade. This is used in Public Sector companies mostly as the Salary for a particular grade is predefined.
How the salary mentioned here is actually used to pay the employees?
1. We can use the defined Grade Rates defined as database items in our fast formulas
2. We can use the salary range for validation when manually entering the salary in the Salary Administration Screen.
3. We can use this in Grade Step progression functionality.( A more detailed post about this GSP later..)
Cheers
Ganesh
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