Enhancements to the Administration of Time Off Entitlements 

Description

Developments in the administration of time off entitlements have been extended for Release 4.5A. Comprehensive functions and user interfaces are now available, which you can use to manage all types of time off entitlements and leave types.

New Functions for Managing Time Off Entitlements

1. Default Values for Creating the Absence Quotas Infotype (2006)
Until now, new functions for accruing absence quotas were directed at users of time evaluation. You can now use the Customizing tables to:

a) Propose default values to aid time data administrators when they create the Absence Quotas infotype (2006).
The Absence Quotas infotype is also linked to the Hiring action. You can convert collective agreement or enterprise regulations that stipulate a leave or absence entitlement for new employees when they join your enterprise.

b) Represent relatively simple situations regardless of the results of time evaluation, such as the proportionate calculation of entitlements per payroll period, month or year. You can use the Generation of Absence Quotas report ( RPTQTA00) for this purpose.

For further information, see the section

Setting Up Methods for Quota Accrual in the Implementation Guide.

2. "Mini-schema" for Accruing Absence Quotas
If you do not use time evaluation for all or some groups of employees in your enterprise, you can still take advantage of the quota accrual feature in time evaluation. You can use the schema TQTA to generate only absence quotas.
A new Time Management status has been incorporated in the Planned Working Time infotype (0007) for this purpose. It permits time evaluation without integrating the results with Payroll Accounting.

3. Compensation of Time Off Entitlements
You can now remunerate time off entitlements from the Absence Quotas infotype (2006).
For more information, see the release information Compensation of Absence Quotas.

4. Report for Displaying Quota Information
You can use the new Display Absence Quota Information report ( RPTQTA10 ) to create overviews of employees' time off credits according to various criteria. This allows you to plan provisions according to organizational units, for example.

5. Displaying Time Accounts in the Internet
Your employees can now check their current time account balances in the Internet or Intranet.
For further information, see the release information on the Internet Application Components in Time Management.

6. BAPI for Loading Quota Information
A new BAPI
BAPI_TIMEQUOTA_GETDETAILEDLIST is available for loading information on time quotas.

Enhancements to Existing Functions

1. Enhancements to Absence Valuation
In Payroll Accounting, you can now valuate absences according to the quota they have deducted.
For more information, see the release information Enhancements to Absence Valuation.

2. Enhancements to the Quota Overview
The layout of the quota overview is now more clearly arranged and user- friendly:

• You can customize the quota overview header to suit your requirements. For more information, see HR: Enhancements to the Infotype Header .

• The decision tree of feature LLREP has been enhanced. Time data administrators no longer need to fill selection screens if they start the report from the quota overview menu.

• The function for flexible person selection alllows you to compare the quota data of employees who have different organizational units or personnel structures, for example.
  For further information, see the release information Enhanced Person Selection for Managing Employee Time Data.

3. Taking Account of Challenges In Absence Quota Accrual
You can now control the accrual of quota entitlements according to an employee's challenge group and degree of challenge. This enables you to set special regulations for the calculation of leave entitlement for challenged employees.

Change system parameters in customizing

For more information on the extensive functions for managing time accounts, see Managing Time Accounts With Attendance/ Absence Quotas in the Time Management Implementation Guide.

To be able to run time evaluation (RPTIME00), users require additional authorizations for the Quota Corrections (2013) and Challenge (0004) infotypes.
For more information, see
Authorization Administration.