Mid Month Transfer Issue in Payroll

Question

Hello All
Good Day!
We have two payrolls defined, Payroll A and Payroll B and both has separate Legal entity but Business Group for both Payroll is same. We are having an issue when employee transfers from Payroll A to B or vice versa as mentioned below :
1) Lets assume Employee transfers from Payroll A to Payroll B as on 17 Oct 2012.
2) As Business Group is same , employee remain in the same BG.
3) So we tried to terminate the employee as on 17-Oct-2012 and re-hired as on 18-Oct-2012 in the Payroll B. We need two IRP5 (tax certificate) so we need to terminate the employee from one payroll and reinstate in new payroll.
4)) We have most of the recurring element configured to Terminate as Last Standard Process so all the recurring elements ended as on 31-Oct-2012, i think this should have been Actual Termination Date but as Payroll is running from last 2 years so this will be too big to change now.
5) Now when we process the payroll as on 31-Oct-2012, employee got full month salary in Payroll A which is not correct as employee worked up to 17-Oct-2012.
6) To avoid full month Salary, we changed the Last Standard Process to 17-Oct-2012 so all elements ended as on 17-Oct-2012 but now when we process the payroll as on 31-Oct-2012, employee is getting picked up but no element processed and no balance generated. Don’t know why ?
Could you please provide your input as what is the best practice to handle this mid month transfer ?
Thanks
Gaurav

Answer 1

Hi, Gaurav..
6) To avoid full month Salary, we changed the Last Standard Process to 17-Oct-2012 so all elements ended as on 17-Oct-2012 but now when we process the payroll as on 31-Oct-2012, employee is getting picked up but no element processed and no balance generated. Don’t know why ?
=>I guess.. The "Final Process Date" set as 31-Oct-2012 when you end this employee, isn't it?
Actual Termination Date will let person end at this date, that's mean person record's effective_end_date will equal to the Actual Termination Date and create a new person record after Actual Termination Date.
Last Standard Process Date let all elements ended as this date.
Final Process Date means you can process payroll run before this date, and the assignment record's effective_end_date will equal to Final Process Date. That's why your payroll run includes this person. There's no elements because all elements ended on 17-Oct-2012, system doesn't get any element on 31-Oct-2012.
Best Regards,
Changhua