Employee full-time status
The application includes the employee Full Time attribute. This attribute specifies whether an employee is considered a full-time employee. This field is used primarily for scheduling purposes, but you can configure the application to accommodate additional designations. The designations require other areas of the application to be configured depending on the modules that are used in your particular implementation.
Employee import
If you are importing your employee records from an HR system, the Employee Import interface supports the setting of the employee Full Time field to any single character. For example, if in addition to the default Y|N options, you want to also include the letter C to indicate Casual, you can send the C as part of your import file. The application supports the import of any single-character designation. The designation can then be mapped to a more user-friendly name using the application's localization functionality.
As the sections below outline, additional configuration is required to display and use this new designation in various areas of the application.
Localizing the Employee and Employee Override screens
The default configuration for the Employee Full Time field is Yes|No (Y|N in the database). This default setting means that maintenance forms that display this field are also localized by default to display only these two options.
Clients and implementation teams should update the localization for the EMP_FULLTIME drop-down. The localization should include mappings for the valid status options that are relevant to their particular implementation. For example, this screen shows a definition for the Casual status:
LFSO
No additional configuration is required for the LFSO module. All additional designations are not full-time. Only one default full-time designation is available.
ETM
The Employee Data page on the ETM can display or hide an employee's full-time status. When displayed, the field's values show as the localized labels. The localized labels are defined in the Employee maintenance form.
For example, if the ComboBoxUI is configured to display Y|N|C as Fulltime|Parttime|Casual and the employee record is set to C, then the word Casual is displayed. If no corresponding label can be found (for example, if the data that is stored in the employee record has been set to X), then this value is displayed in the UI with no translation.
Pay rules and conditions
The Is Employee Property Generic Condition is already capable of correctly comparing additional single-character values (for example, empFulltime=C).
Employment Type and Work Type
The application includes the Employment Type and Work Type attributes. The Employment Type attribute specifies the type of employment relationship between the employer and the employee. The Work Type attribute specifies the nature of work the employee has with the employer. Both fields are used primarily for scheduling purposes.
MVS
The Advanced Schedule View of the Multiview Scheduler provides the ability to filter and sort employees based on their employment type and work type. The sorting is based on the relative sort order of various employment types and work types in their definitions. The Relief Calling Area can filter employees based on their work type. By default, the work type filter is configured to display PART TIME, CASUAL, and FLEX options.