Hours and cycles

When you define absence management plans, you can determine whether they are based on the number of hours a resource works or on the number of calendar cycles.

• Hours: Hours type plans are defined for the actual number of hours a resource has worked. You can define the types of hours that count. For example whether family leave counts toward vacation accruals.

  An hours service type is defined on a table that is attached to an hours-based plan. The hours service type determines the hours and positions that count toward length of service when the resource has multiple years of service and multiple enrollment records.

  Use Length of Service Calculate to create length of service hour records.

• Cycles: In contrast, instead of counting the number of hours that a resource has worked, cycle-based plans are based on cyclical periods: weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually. For example, a vacation plan may award paid time off based on years of service.

  A cycle service type is defined on a table that is attached to a cycle-based plan. The cycle service type determines how length of service is treated for that table’s calculation when the resource has multiple enrollments within the same plan. Length of service in cycles is determined by taking the earliest service begin date from the appropriate master record as determined by the cycle service type.

  Length of service in cycles is calculated when you run Process Plans.