Employee has a family tie to another employee

Question

Is it possible to record in SAP HR where an employee has a family tie to another employee? Corporate policy at my company is that there should be no direct line relationships, so a wife cannot report into her husband.  Whilst at the point of recruitment we would most certainly ensure that this did not happen, years down the line as people move in the organisation, where the connection is less obvious it may be forgotten. This could be the case for example with sisters u2013 different surnames, cousins etc.
I'm thinking that I can create some additional fields on IT21 to indicate if the related person is an employee and perhaps include their PERNR, manager's name and org unit. 
has anyone else had this requirement and if so, what was your solution?
Thanks Tanya

Answer 1

Hi
Certainly have not come across this requirement before, but have come across several funny ones, so this doesn't appear to be very strange.
I guess the only way is what you have already identified. Use IT0021 to store all family/dependent info details, and if any of them work in the same company, either use an existing field or enhance it with a new field to store the personnel number of the relative.
Depending on how you do the recruitment in the system, either have some reports run everytime you process someone through it, or some online checks using user eixts etc.
Hope this helps.