How to pay for a holiday in payroll run?

Question

Dear All,
We have a scenario where In a month the first four days are holiday and employee is hired on the 5th day.
When we run the payroll for that particular employee, it only pays the employee from 5th.
But the scenario is, the employee has to be paid completely for the whole month as the first 4 days are holidays.
We have work schedule defined and using proration.
Suggest us the database element and in which tables the work schedules are stored and how can we over come this issue.
Best Regards,
Uma.

Answer 1

Hi Uma,
One way of doing it is by incorporating this computation in the formula which calculates your basic salary.
If your employee's hire date (EMP_HIRE_DATE - database item) is after your Payroll period start date (PAY_PROC_PERIOD_START_DATE), then currently the pro-ration calculation is performed.
You'll have to insert another piece of control in this part which will check if the days between the Payroll period start date and emp hire date are holidays (I assume you have your holidays stored somewhere in the system) or not and adjust the "start date" used for the pro-ration with every holiday found between EMP_HIRE_DATE and PAY_PROC_PERIOD_START_DATE.
HTH.
Rajen.