
Maintaining Maternity Protection And Parental Leave Data
Use
The Maternity Protection infotype (0080) enables you to record all absences related to maternity protection and parental leave. If you create a record in this infotype, the system generates a corresponding absence record in the Absences infotype (2001).
If you lock a record in this infotype, however, the corresponding absence record in the Absences infotype is NOT locked automatically. You must indicate that you want the record locked in the Absences infotype as well.

You can only use this infotype for female employees. If you want to record parental leave for a male employee, use the Absences infotype (2001).
Maternity protection and parental leave both involve regulations and provisions specific to a particular company, collective agreement or country. As a result, you can make individualized settings in this infotype in Customizing. The length of time permitted for maternity protection and parental leave, as well as the application deadlines for parental leave, vary extensively.
Note: You should maintain all data that is connected to one birth in the same infotype record. To create a data record, complete the following three steps:
Notification of pregnancy to employer
Procedure
The Maternity Protection screen appears.
The system calculates the periods automatically. However, you can overwrite the default values.
Result
You have entered data for the Notification of Pregnancy to the Employer.
Enter Actual Delivery Date and Recalculation Periods
It is unlikely that expected and actual delivery dates are the same. The type of birth (twins, multiple birth and so on) can also influence the length of absence.
Procedure
The Change Maternity Protection screen appears.
The maternity protection and parental leave periods are recalculated.

This function is also used to recalculate the absence records in the Absences infotype (2001). You must carry out this function in order to prevent data inconsistency.
7. Save your entries.
Result
You have now stored the actual periods for maternity protection.
Entering Parental Leave
Procedure
If no default values are displayed, choose the appropriate absence type and enter the periods.
Result
You have now entered parental leave data for an employee.