Concept: Enrollment Period for Benefit
Events
You can define the benefit enrollment period for a specific type of benefit
event. You can also restrict an employee's ability to report that benefit event after the
enrollment period has expired.
When an employee reports a benefit event using
Change Benefits
,
Workday uses the Days to Enroll Calculation
field to determine if the
start date begins on:- The event date.
- The date the employee reports the event.
Days to Enroll
field to that
date. This new date is the employee's Submit Elections By
date.Workday only respects the value of
Days to
Enroll
if the worker initiates a benefit enrollment event with the
Change Benefits
task. Workday recommends that you create a
validation on the Dependent Event
business process to enforce Days to
Enroll
. This validation is for when the worker initiates the Add
Dependent
task.Days to Enroll Calculation (Event or Initiate Date) + Days to Enroll = Submit
Elections By
If you select the
Employee Cannot Report After Days to Enroll
check
box and the date passes, the employee receives an error message and can’t proceed. You can use
the Change Benefits
task to report the benefit event on behalf of the
employee. Workday uses the system date as the basis for calculating the enrollment
period.Workday provides the
Submit Elections
By
field as a guideline for employees to submit an event, but doesn’t enforce this
date. Employees that start the benefit enrollment before the Submit Elections
By
date can submit benefit elections after the date, until you finalize the
enrollment event.