How to overwrite seniority for a specific activity

This article describes how you can overwrite the seniority set in Personal Details | Seniority for a specific activity when there is a temporary position change or other reasons for needing to use different seniority.

Seniority in Payroll

When calculating payroll, the system will check for a person's seniority set in PErsonal Details | Seniority and fetch the corresponding rate from the Payscale Table and Code.

Example:
This person has seniority that started on the 25th of March in 2000.

The person has a seniority of 21,43463 years in total.

 

He has two activities linked to two different Payscale Tables and Codes in the same Payroll period:

The activities are linked to different Payscale Tables and Codes

 

If no other changes are made, the system will use the seniority of 21,43463 for both activities:

Overwrite Seniority

It is possible to overwrite the seniority on each activity by:

  1. Go to Datagroup | Activities

  2. Open the applicable activity, enter the wanted seniority in the Payroll | Activity class field, and click OK to save and close.

     

  3. Go back to Payroll and calculate the person, and you will now see a new rate corresponding to the overwritten seniority.