Inactive Work Relationship
Use
An inactive work relationship is a work relationship that has been interrupted for specific reasons, but which has not been terminated. For example, maternity protection, parental leave, and military or non-military service. During this period of time, the employee can be entitled to payments such as the Christmas bonus, or vacation allowances.
The difference between leaving the enterprise and an inactive work relationship is that an employee with an inactive work relationship must return to work after a certain period of time. If an employee does not return to work after parental leave, for example, you must perform the
Leaving
personnel action for this employee.
Features
There are two ways of portraying an inactive work relationship:
You change the employee’s
Employment Status
to 1 (Inactive
) in the Actions (0000) .Sometimes, an employee who has an inactive work relationship may work at your enterprise on an hourly basis, such as during parental leave. In such instances, it is a good idea to hire the employee for such part-time activities using a different personnel number. This enables you to keep both work relationships separate. The employee’s entitlements from the inactive work relationship can be taken fully into account.
You enter a prolonged absence using the Absences (2001) infotype. You can stipulate in Customizing whether an employee is paid during the absence or not. Many country versions, for example Germany, use this method.
In this case, the employee retains the employment status 3 (
Active
). Note that you cannot then use the employment status as a selection criterion to prevent the employee from being included in an evaluation.