Assignment
ConceptintermediateThe dated, person-specific record of what somebody does: job or position, pay, compensation, manager, working hours and location, with a status that decides whether it is eligible for payroll processing.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That a person holds one assignment. A work relationship must have at least one, and the legal employer may allow several, each numbered separately.
- That a role stops existing when the person in it leaves. Only the assignment stops; the job definition and the position are unaffected.
Recall it
What does an assignment carry, how many can one person hold, and which related values cannot be changed later?
An assignment carries the person-specific record: job or position, pay, compensation, manager, working hours and location, plus a status that decides payroll eligibility and is set to Active - payroll eligible on creation. A work relationship must have at least one assignment and the legal employer may allow several, numbered with a suffix such as E45678-1 and E45678-2, and each work relationship needs at least one primary assignment. Worker type and legal employer sit on the work relationship and cannot be changed once it is created, so it has to be cancelled and recreated.
Memory hook: The assignment is the only one of the three records that ends. The other two outlive the person.
Rests on COREHR-ASG-009, COREHR-ASG-010, COREHR-ASG-011, COREHR-WR-013.
Taught in
- Jobs, positions and the assignment that joins themThree records with three different lifetimes. Which one you model the role on decides whether it survives the person, and which one carries the person decides how many payslips a worker can have.
- The Worker Lifecycle: What a Work Relationship Can and Cannot SurviveFive processes create a work relationship, two of its values are fixed forever, one primary rule decides what you may terminate, and a rehire never reopens what a termination closed.
- Worker, Assignment, Work Relationship: The Three Records and Their RulesThree records answer three different questions about a person, and the one learners confuse is the pair that can disagree: a nonprimary work relationship whose assignment is still primary. Plus the two date fields that change nothing.
Related
- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it