Work relationship
ConceptintermediateThe record that binds a person to one legal employer under one worker type. Created only by Hire, Rehire, Global Transfer, Global Temporary Assignment or Create Work Relationship, and neither the worker type nor the legal employer can be changed after it exists.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That the worker type or legal employer can be edited in place later. Both are fixed at creation; changing either means cancelling the work relationship and creating it again.
- That a rehire reopens the terminated work relationship. The person record stays active and the rehire creates a new work relationship.
- That a person can be left without a primary work relationship. The primary cannot be terminated until a different primary has been selected.
Recall it
Which five processes create a work relationship, which two values are fixed from that moment, and what may you not terminate?
Hire, Rehire, Global Transfer, Global Temporary Assignment and Create Work Relationship. The worker type and legal employer are chosen at creation and cannot be changed afterwards — changing either means cancelling the work relationship and repeating the process. The primary work relationship cannot be terminated until a different primary has been selected, because a person cannot be without a primary work relationship at any time.
Memory hook: Five doors in, no door back. One primary at all times, and a rehire is a new relationship rather than a reopened one.
Rests on COREHR-WR-016, COREHR-WR-018, COREHR-WR-019, COREHR-WR-013.
Taught in
- 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.
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- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it