Contingent Worker, Contract Worker and Termination

Question

Hi,
I am trying to create contract workers for my business groups but not sure which person type to use and if termination conditions vary between the different people group types.
if I have a contract worker, will they be terminated based on the end date of their contract?
as for the contingent workers, how can I use them to my advantage and can they also be terminated via their contracts end dates?
OR do have to terminate both those types of employees manual (by filling a terminating form in oracle hrms).
Please help me.
Cheers,
Lusia

Answer 1

Hi Lusia,
How are you differentiating Contingent workers and Contract workers.
Contingent workers(CWK) are those who are not paid through the payroll system, but outside of it(say from Accounts payables)
So you can employ them and record their data for tracking purposes and use everything on the Person form.
As you don't pay anything from Payroll, you cannot store any pay related data.
For terminating CWKs, you use End Placement instead of end employment.
You can treat your contract workers as employees or CWKs, depending on how you want to pay them.
If you treat them as employees, you can create fixed-term assignments and pay them through the payroll system.
The onus is on you to pay the employee and also process his/her Taxes/NI etc..
If you treat them as CWKs, you don't have to worry about pay, NI, taxes as they would be paid outside the payroll system.
Check the usages of different person Types in the user guide -
Oracle Human Resources Management Systems Workforce Sourcing, Deployment, and Talent Management Guide (US)
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Vignesh