FAQ: International and Domestic Assignments

If an employee is with multiple positions and the assignment is domestic, you should use

Add Additional Job

. You can also use

Change Job

for a domestic assignment if you don’t need to track the home position.

For an international assignment, you can use either

Add Additional Job

or

Start International Assignment

. Workday recommends that you use the

Add Additional Job

business process for improved functionality.

Yes, you can start an international assignment from a job application by using the

Add Additional Job

business process.

The compensation will depend on the agreement you have made with the assignee. It's possible to configure Workday to pay an employee in their home country, host country, or both.

When an employee goes on an assignment, by default, the pay group will be tied to the home position. As part of the business process you use to start assignments, it’s possible to assign a different pay group to the host position. Assigning a different pay group is necessary if the employee is paid through the host position, or for reporting purposes. Through the pay group assignments, you can send compensation data to your (third party) payroll for the home position, host position, or both.

You can configure time off plans to be position-based or worker-based depending on your requirements.

You can evaluate time off plans based on:

Primary position for worker-based plans.
Both positions for position-based plans.

If your time off plans are worker-based, eligibility rules that reference the attributes of the position will be based on the home (primary) position of the worker. In this set up, a worker with an international assignment retains eligibility to the existing plans based on the home position.

For a worker on an international assignment to be eligible for time off plans based on the host position, the time off plans has to be position-based. In this case, the non-primary positions of the worker can be referenced for eligibility.

No.

Use the

Edit Position

or

Change Job

task to change the expected assignment end date of a position with an international assignment.

Assignments won’t end automatically at an expected end date. You'll have to initiate the end of the assignment. Assignments can also end when you terminate an employee.

Yes, an employee can have multiple assignments.

When an employee is on an international assignment, the employee must have 2 positions: home and host position. Both positions are open and counted within headcount reports as 2. There's an option to exclude positions from headcount reports. Access the

Edit Position

task and select the

Exclude from Headcount

check box to avoid displaying an employee twice in headcount reports.

Yes.

As the home and host positions are independent of each other, promoting one position will not impact the other. It's your decision to either promote an employee’s home, host, or both positions.