Terminated employees assignment not being end dated

Question

Dear Gurus,
I have terminated an employee and his status is shown as Ex -Employee but his assignment is not being end dated till the termination date. I dont know what is the problem? in fact is is even letting me open assignment form after the termination date where as in normal cases it does not even allows us to go to assignment form after the termination date.
Help Please
Muhammad Noman Shafique

Answer 1

Hi Muhammad,
There are 3 important dates on the Terminations form -
Actual Termination date(ATD)
Last Standard Process date (LSPD)
Final Process date(FD)
If all the above are the same, then you cannot navigate into the Assignment form, after the termination date. i.e. the assignment is end-dated as of the termination date.
If the LSPD or FD are later than the ATD, then you can still navigate into the assignment form as the assignment is still active with a termination status.
There is a special use-case, for the above scenario. Consider this -
You have terminated an employee as of 15-Apr-2012 (ATD). Now you can process the employee payroll only till 15-Apr-2012, if all the above dates are the same.
Now, if you want to process some elements like Termination-pay or Leave-salary, which you want to calculate at the month-end, then you can give the LSPD as 30-Apr-2012. And at the month-end you can process the payroll.
Say, you want to process an element called commission or Extra-pay for a terminated employee, 6 months after his termination, then the Final process date can be changed to the month you want to process the element(If you see closely, the FD is the only date which can be amended on the termination form).
So depending on your use-case, you need to enter the dates.
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Vigneswar