Create period unit - A summary of the activity

A period unit refers to a fixed period of time, which can be a week, a day or an hour. A period unit is used to define the frequency of the payroll calendar. Computations of pay, calculating the attendance of an employee, etc, are all based on period units. Each period unit is made up of smaller unit of time called base period unit.

The base period unit provided in the system is "Hour". The system will always display the value for Base Period Unit as “Hour”. Every period unit is converted into the base period units and recorded. The base period is used to measure all parameters of pay such as Attendance and Pay Element Value. The pay of a particular employee is computed on the number of base period units, that is, the number of hours.

The process of converting a period unit into the base period unit can be achieved by the "conversion factor". For example, an organization defines "week" as its period unit, and the base period unit is “hours”. The week is a five-day working week, and the working day is 8 hrs so week becomes 8*5 = 40 hrs, hence the conversion factor is 40. Through this activity, you can define

• A period unit with a unique code and description

• Specify the conversion factor of the period unit with relation to the base period unit. The base period unit is the system-defined value.

• Map the attendance type to organization units, which means that the period unit element will be made available to these organizational units

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Prerequisites

The base period unit must have been defined during deployment.

What you can do in this activity

Create period units 

Create period units

You can create period units and make it applicable to various organization units.

• Use the the “Create Period Units” page to specify a unique code, description and a conversion factor  for a period unit.

• Use the “Org. Unit Mapping” page to specify the various organization units to which the period unit must be applicable.