Work relationships and assignments

You met this chain earlier as three boxes. Now we go into them, because everything in this phase hangs off the difference between the middle box and the last one. A work relationship is the relationship between a person and a legal employer. It carries the type — employee, contingent worker, non-worker — the legal employer, the start date, and the service dates that statutory calculations depend on. That last item is why this object matters more than it looks: legal entitlements attach here. An assignment is the work being done: job or position, department, grade, location, manager, FTE, working hours, assignment status. Why two objects rather than one? Four real cases. A person employed by two group companies — two legal employers, two relationships, one human. An employee who is also a contractor elsewhere in the group — two relationships of different types. A worker doing two distinct jobs…

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