A Higher Duty is when an employee is required to work at a higher position for a specific period of time and in turn receives the difference between the nominal and higher duty’s salary as an Allowance. The infotype enables you to store the following details required for administration of Higher Duties:
- Get the new organizational details of the higher duty.
- Get higher duty details.
- Get the new pay scale structures of the higher duty.
- Get the assignment details.
- Simulation screen to display the estimated allowance.
Use
All the information stored in this infotype is used to calculate the payment for higher duties by comparing the nominal salary with the higher duties salary, and generating the difference; this will be the payment for higher duties.
For example, if the employee’s Higher Duties salary is $34,746 and Nominal salary is $24,746. Higher Duties Allowance will be $10,000, which is the difference between the Higher Duties salary and the Nominal salary.
The Activity with Higher Rate (0509) infotype is divided into the following groups of data:
General
In this tab, you record:
- Reason why employee of higher duty position is absent and position has to be filled.
- Percentage the employee receives based on the higher duty performed. The Higher Duty allowance amount is paid based on the percentage specified in this field. For example, if the employee works 60% on Higher Duty and 40% on nominal, then this field has to be specified with 60. So, the amount for higher duty is paid for 60%.
- Percentage of cost to be borne by the nominal cost centre. While a person is performing higher duty it might be required to distribute the person’s costs between nominal cost center and higher duty cost center. The relevant nominal cost center percentage is to be entered in this field.
- Indicates whether you want to pay the employee for full day even if the employee only worked for half a day. For example, if an employee works for half a day in the higher duty position, he will be paid for the full day.
- Indicator whether employee is not paid for the higher duty if he works for less than half a day in this position. For example, an employee works for less than half a day in the higher duty position. If the Count actual period of performance radio button is chosen, you can select this checkbox. In this case, the employee is not paid for the higher duty.
Assignment
In this tab, you record whether you want to make assignment by position or by number. Maintain the personnel number of the person for whom the employee is going to perform higher duty. Either this field or the HD Position field.
Choose the Only Wage types IT 0008 radio button if you want the system to calculate the higher duty allowance based on the direct valuation. That means, the basic pay data is read from Basic pay infotype (0008) of the higher duty personnel number while computing the higher duty allowance.
Higher Duty
In this tab, you record new organizational details such as personnel area, personnel subarea, employee group and so on.
Nominal
In this tab, you record the details such as position, pay scale type, pay scale area and so on.
Estimated HDA
In this tab, you record the employee’s higher duty salary and nominal salary.
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