Individual Action (PA52.1)

Use Individual Action (PA52.1) to implement actions for an individual employee.

An action either updates Employee (HR11.1) immediately or is pending; you can change a pending action before it updates HR11.1. To update HR11.1 with a pending action, run Action Update (PA100). The system validates fields in HR11.1 and a personnel action the same way.

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You can add comments associated with a personnel action. When you save an immediate action, the comments subform appears. If the action is updated immediately, you can add the comments once and may not access them again. When you save a pending action, you can choose the Comments button to define comments about the action. You can maintain comments until you run PA100 (Action Update) and update the action.

If you select the Fill Defaults form action, current defaults for the position display. Depending on how you set up position defaults in Position Item Attributes (HR10.2) you cannot override some of these defaults.

Use PA52.1 to automatically start and stop required deductions for the employee. Employees are eligible for required deductions if they meet the criteria defined on PR03.1 (Deduction Required Code).

If you use the Benefits system and the action you are adding is a COBRA occurrence, the action creates a COBRA participant record in BN70.1 (COBRA Participant). For information on occurrences and COBRA, see the Benefits Procedures Manual.

Special processing functionality is available:

Override the history correction method defined on Action (PA50.1) or the company default set on HR00 when correcting employee history files with retroactive changes. Change the effective date of a pending action by entering a new effective date. Reverse an action that has been updated. Combine this action with a previously updated action. Move information from another position level into this level.