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Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 4 · Legal Entities, LDGs, PSUs, TRUs and Business Units

The decisions you cannot undo

Lesson 30 of 175 · 4 min

Most HCM configuration is adjustable: you get it wrong, you learn, you change it, life continues. Three things in this module are not. Legislative data groups. An LDG partitions payroll-related data, and a worker's payroll data lives inside one. Moving workers between LDGs after go-live means terminating and rehiring them, or a full data migration. There is no "change LDG" button and there never will be, because the data is partitioned at the storage level rather than filtered at the display level. Legal employer designation. The legal employer owns the work relationship, so changing which legal entity employs somebody is a termination and a rehire, with every seniority, continuous service and statutory consequence that carries. This is the concrete version of the earlier warning about conflating legal and management structures. Business unit boundaries — genuinely softer than the first two, and worth saying so rather than overstating it. But reference…

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In this module: Module 4 · Legal Entities, LDGs, PSUs, TRUs and Business Units

  1. 1What we are building
  2. 2The decisions you cannot undo
  3. 3The object map
  4. 4Legislative data groupsFree preview
  5. 5Legal employers, PSUs and TRUs
  6. 6Running the structure design workshop
  7. 7Four worked country models
  8. 8Legal jurisdictions and authorities
  9. 9Creating legal entities
  10. 10Designating legal employers, PSUs and TRUs
  11. 11Creating legislative data groups
  12. 12Business units
  13. 13Reference data sets
  14. 14Associating business units with legal employers
  15. 15Deduction levels and calculation cards
  16. 16Proving the structure works
  17. 17What breaksFree preview
  18. 18Lab briefing: the Northwind structure
  19. 19Lab solution walkthrough