Inserting an employment period (rehiring/leaving) between two existing ones

Question

Hi experts,
I'm coming across another limitation of PA and even if i have very little hope i'm interesting in getting your views on the matter.
We deal with a large number of fixed term contracts. It can happen for instance that a number of short terms contracts are proactively entered into SAP, for instance contract A from 01.05.2009 to 15.05.2009 and contract B from 10.06.2009 to 20.06.2009. Now it can happen than we need to insert an additional contract within those 2 existing ones, let's say contract Z from 25.05.2009 to 03.06.2009. The user should therefore operate a rehiring action and then a leaving action again. The thing is the system doesn't let you do so and issues an error message following a check on employment status.
Has anyone any good idea about how to go around this ? Except of course suppressing all future actions and recreating, which i would want to avoid obviously :o)
Thanks,
Sylvain.

Answer 1

for this u need to configure an action   employee inactive  action in  PA40  in before that check the below documentation
for this scenario u can use the status as 1  which is customer defined
Employment Status
Definition
Status indicators for personnel actions.
Use
The three status indicators have the following meanings:
1. Customer defined: Not used in the standard system. You can use
this indicator according to your requirements.
2. Employment: 0: Employee not with company
1: Employee with company, but inactive2: Employee with company, but as retiree
3: Employee active in company
3. Special payment: 0: Special payment: no entitlement
1: Special payment: standard wage type
2: Special payment: special wage type
This special payment indicator is only relevant for the country
versions of Austria and Spain.
Procedure
Each action is assigned the three status indicators STAT1 (customer defined), STAT2 (employment), STAT3 (special payment) in the customizing system.
When a personnel action record is created, the system automatically fills the Customer defined, Employment and Special payment fields if the action affects the employee's status.
The first record of the Actions infotype is assigned the status specified in the customizing system. All other records
have the same status indicator as the new personnel action if this is not BLANK in the customizing system.
have the same status indicator as the previous record if this is BLANK in the customizing system.
This applies to all three indicators.
Edited by: Sikindar on Apr 23, 2009 1:35 PM