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Technical Start Date for Absences 

Use

The start date as used for SSP/SMP absence processing has been redefined in Release 4.6C to meet customers' absence processing requirements. In practice, many customers use the Date Specifications (0041) infotype to record an employee's actual start date, industry start date, continuous employment date, etc. However, until now the employee start date on the Events (0000) infotype (often the data take on date) was used for SSP/SMP processing.

There are basically two situations where the technical start date is required rather than the start date on the Events (0000) infotype:

• When a leaving and hiring event is used for a change of contract although a person is in effect in continuous employment

• When HR master data is only loaded for the system start, but not the person's complete historical data

A new routine FIND_TECHNICAL_START_DATE, which reads the technical start date (infotype 0041), has therefore been added to SSP/SMP processing in the payroll driver. The feature ENTRY is read before infotype 0041 to determine the technical start date. If a technical start date is found that is before hire_dte, then hire_dte is set to the technical start date.

Effects on Customizing

The date type entered on the Date Specifications (0041) infotype is customizable. To set up your system appropriately, you need to carry out the Customizing step Set Up Technical Start Date for Absences . In this step, you define the date type in the feature ENTRY for country modifier 08. A model entry 'DATYP 01' is provided.