Contractors, Org Charts, and Co-employment issues

Our legal and HR departments are concerned with putting contractors into our company's organization within SAP. However, as a workflow developer, I would like to take advantage of the possibilities that are offered by having the contractors in the org structure. We are a global company with approximately 15,000 employees. Maintaining a separate org structure for just the contractors seems costly. Has anyone else run into these co-employment issues? If so, how did you resolve them? .. Many Thanks in Advance!

Hi Sherie
U can explore the Contract Element's Feature to meet Ur Requirement.
U have to maintain Contract type in It0001 for an Employee.
U can define Contract types in SPRO->PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT->PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION->CONTRACTUAL AND CORPORATE AGREEMENTS->CONTRACT ELEMENTS.
Hope This wud help U.
Award Points if info is helpful.
BiSu

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Hi,
I cant see any co-employement issues if U maintain consultants in Org structure.
U can create one Orgunit may be say "Out side vendor" and create positions there.
And U can maintain the reporting structure for MSS authorizations.
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~BiSu

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at
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at
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at
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at
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Hi Matthew,
How about the directory search function ? Does it work ?
I would follow below troubleshooting steps.
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If you need further assistance about "lower the picture quality" via VBA, please post your question to MSDN forum:
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