Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Absence Management
Accrual and entitlement plans, eligibility profiles, and absence calculations.
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- Compensatory and donation plan chaptersTen lessons now cover the module: the six components and the setup order, the six plan types, how an absence duration is decided from the work schedule, the approval and processing rules on an absence type, and — added 2026-11-06/07 from chapters 9, 5, 4, 14, 6 and 10 of the faiam book — accrual plan configuration (term types, balance frequency, carryover rules, annual limit versus ceiling, enrollment and termination, accrual bands), eligibility profiles with derived factors (criteria, include/exclude, OR/AND semantics, single-versus-multiple profile limits), fast formulas for absence rules (formula-type gate, name-linked accrual event, compile versus execution errors), absence certifications (requirement types, triggers, phases, entitlement reevaluation), rate definitions for absence payments (categories, contributors, periodicity conversion, the four payment rate rules, payroll-only resolution), and qualification plans (term types, overlap rules, entitlement band matrices, enrollment versus termination, open-ended absences). What is still absent is the remaining configuration depth: the compensatory and donation plan chapters (11–12). These are documented in the same book and are the next increment.In the meantime: Read the ten published Absence lessons first, so the component model, the plan types, the accrual plan fields, the eligibility model, the formula layer, the certification model, the rate model and the qualification-plan model are settled. Then use the Implementing Absence Management book — the prefix is faiam and the full book index is in docs/ORACLE_BOOK_INDEX.md — chapters 11–12 for what this gap names.
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Learn after: Core HR
Lessons
- 1Absence Management: six components and a setup orderThe six objects an absence policy is built from, which of them actually decide entitlement, and the documented order to build them in — with the unit-of-measure rule that silently decides whether a plan and a type agree.14 min
- 2The six absence plan types, and when each one is the right oneAccrual, qualification, no entitlement, agreement, compensatory and donation are alternatives rather than a progression — and the mistakes that come from reading them as one.13 min
- 3How an absence becomes a number of hoursThe schedule search order that converts two calendar days of absence into a quantity of leave, the start point on the absence type that decides where the search begins, and the 8:30a to 5:00p default that fires when nothing is found.13 min
- 4From a submitted absence to an entitlementThe six rules on an absence type that decide what happens between a worker submitting and an entitlement existing, and the six processes that calculate, confirm and withdraw the result.15 min
- 5Configuring an accrual plan: term, frequency, limits and carryoverThe eleven rule areas of an accrual plan, the two term types, the two balance frequency sources, the five carryover limit rules, and the difference between the annual accrual limit and the ceiling — using Oracle’s own vacation-plan example as the worked case.18 min
- 6Who may enroll: eligibility profiles and derived factorsHow an eligibility profile decides who can enroll in an absence plan and who can schedule its absences: create derived factors first, build the profile with include/exclude criteria, and remember that absence plans accept several profiles while an absence type accepts exactly one.16 min
- 7Fast formulas: the rules you write yourselfWhich absence rules accept a fast formula and which formula type each one requires — from absence type conversion and validation to accrual ceiling, carryover, entitlement and payment rates — plus how a formula is created and compiled, and how to tell a compilation error from an execution error.18 min
- 8Certifications: the action items that gate continued payHow an absence certification requirement works: created with the Absence Certifications task and associated with an absence type on its Action Items tab, it triggers on demand or on the absence start date, runs through three phases that set a target status field and can reevaluate entitlements (override, recalculate, retract) — and it exists only for illness/injury and maternity absence types.16 min
- 9Rate definitions: what one unit of absence costsHow a rate definition prices a single unit of absence — categories (Derived Rate, Element, Value by Criteria, Grade Rate, Formula), contributors with periodicity and factors, conversion to the return periodicity, and min/max rules — which of the four absence payment rate rules reference it, and why the rate is only resolved in payroll, never in Absence Management itself.18 min
- 10Qualification plans: paying an absence with no balanceThe plan type that pays workers who qualify for it during an absence without accruing a balance — the four rule areas (term, eligibility, enrollment/termination, payments), the four term types and when each applies, the overlap rules that decide how straddling absences count on rolling-backward terms, the entitlement band matrix that maps worker criteria to duration and payment percentage, and open-ended absences calculated for 365 days.18 min
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