The employment model options

Two dimensions to this choice, given as questions rather than as option names. How many assignments can a work relationship have — one, or several? And is there an intermediate layer between the relationship and the assignment? Answer those two and you have chosen a model, whatever it happens to be called in your environment. Single assignment: one work relationship, one assignment. Simplest, and it covers the large majority of workers in most organisations — not a fallback, the normal case. Multiple assignments: one work relationship, several concurrent assignments. Needed when one person does two distinct jobs for one employer, which is common in healthcare, education, retail and hospitality. If your client is in one of those, expect to need it. The intermediate layer: where the model supports it, an additional level between the relationship and the assignment, carrying terms shared by the assignments beneath it — useful where a…

In this module: Module 10 · The Employment Model and Assignments

1. 1Work relationships and assignments
2. 2The employment model options
3. 3Choosing the modelFree preview
4. 4Setting the model
5. 5Creating work relationships
6. 6Assignment attributes
7. 7Multiple assignments in practice
8. 8Assignment statuses
9. 9People groups and default expense account
10. 10Areas of responsibility revisited
11. 11What breaks
12. 12Lab briefing: relationships, concurrency and long-term leave