PeopleSoft Absence Management Cumulative Feature Overview

PeopleSoft Absence Management Cumulative Feature Overview
PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS Cumulative Feature Overview

Absence Management


•Employees can submit a time-off request with a minimum of clicks. The user interface displays only the required amount of information needed to submit the request and is tailored to each kind of absence.

•Absence Request History page displays a list of the employee’s absence requests for a specific default range of dates that the employee can change and refresh the list.

•Employees can easily view their current absence entitlement balances.

•Employees can click the Forecast Balance link that appears on employee self-service pages to calculate projected absence entitlement balances as of a future date.

•Managers can easily submit a request to take time off on behalf of one of their employees.

•Managers can easily view their employees’ current or projected absence entitlement balances.

•Managers can easily call up a list of all absence requests that are awaiting approval (pending), approved, or denied.

•Manager can use the Request Details page to approve, deny, or push an absence request back to the previous step in the approval process. Manager can forecast the employee’s absence balance to verify eligibility for the type of absence requested.

•Highly configurable absence accrual functionality.

•Highly configurable absence consumption and eligibility functionality, or absence takes.

•Ability to change the terms viewed in self-service pages so that they can better match local needs.

•Two types of integration to Payroll for North America, either directly or through Time and Labor.

•Ability to export computed absence results (by employee and pay period) for actual payment with your third party payroll system. On top of the Payroll Interface regular setup only a minimum amount of setup is required to map absence payment codes to existing payroll interface codes.

•Enhanced shared scheduling components including employee self-service view monthly schedule, self-service scheduling pages for managers and employees, streamlined approach to building work schedules, ability to create personalized schedules for individual employees, and rotating schedules.

You can process absences outside of the normal processing cycle (off-cycle).


•Enhanced administrator reporting and inquiry tools including payee messages report and administrator review of absence results.

•Ability to view absence entitlement balances and enter absences from the Time and Labor Timesheet page. Users can report and approve absences using the Timesheet page, thus facilitating absence entry and validation within Time and Labor.

•Enhanced integration with Time and Labor, including absence entries on timesheets, absence approvals, and consideration of absence data.

•Improved dashboard to handle off-cycle/on-demand absence processing without cumbersome data entry pages.

•Enhanced Approval Framework features for the absence approval process, improved user experience for creating, running, and managing the approval processes.

•Delegation to authorize another person to serve as his or her representative when working with absence self-service transactions.