HR: Tax Location Code Error while hiring an Employee.

This error might confuse us because there are two location fields on the Job Data page.
One is one the Work Location Page and other one is on the Payroll tab.

Location on Work Location page does not determine the employee’s primary work state. It is determined by the Tax location entered in the Payroll tab.

Once we provide data in this field, we should be able to save the Job data for New Hire.

Business Unit

The term Business Unit is used quite often in PeopleSoft.  There are various ways we can interpret the meaning of Business Unit. 

Basically, it helps organizations to track the day to day transactions and also helps in forecasting on things that require attention.

Now let’s see the various scenarios in which Business Units can be used.

Scenario 1: Think of a college that has different Departments like Computers/Mechanical/Civil and other Departments such as Administration/Cultural/Sports.

If the College Management want to know the details happening in each of these department then each department can be treated as one Business Unit. 

Scenario 2: Consider a Restaurant, which had outlets in major cities of the country.

If the Hotel Management want to know the transactions happening in each of these City Unit then each City Unit can be treated as one Business Unit.

Scenario 3: A Company that has Business operations covered in various countries.

In this case, each office operating  from each country can be treated as one Business Unit.

Thus Business Unit is nothing but a logical entity that is used by HR/Admin/Management/Finance and various other people to generate the reports that will be helpful in understanding the operations/transactions happening in each of the units.

Hope this post is useful..

Relation between Job Actions and Effective Date

Peoplesoft HCM Relation between Job Actions and Effective Date.

Personnel actions that begin new stages of employment (hire, promotion, reassignment, transfer, disciplinary action, and pay rate changes) are effective
at the beginning of the business day.

Example: Employee gets promoted as of 15-Jan-2012. That means effective 15-Jan-2012, employee enters his new role.

Personnel actions such as removal and termination are effective at the end of the business day.

Example: Employee gets terminated as of 12-Aug-2012. That means employee last working day is 11-Aug-2012 and from 12-Aug he is no more with the company.