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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Out of Order Correction

Concept: Out of Order Correction

You can correct a staffing event without rescinding later events in a worker's history, as long as the correction doesn't change the worker's position. For academic workers, you can't correct the track type or employment position. Workday enables you to make out of order corrections to most staffing events that are available for correction, including:
Category
Business Process
Hiring
  • Add Additional Job
  • Contract Contingent Worker
  • Hire
  • Start International Assignment
Job Change
  • Change Job
Work Space Change
  • Change Work Space
Termination
  • End Additional Job
  • End Contingent Worker Contract
  • End International Assignment
  • Termination
Academic Faculty
  • Add Academic Appointment
  • End Academic Appointment
  • Update Academic Appointment
To help you determine the impact of a correction, Workday displays any subsequent processes that a change could affect, including staffing events, moves, and reorganizations. Whenever a worker's history has later events than the effective date of the event you're correcting, the
Correct Business Process
 page includes the
Subsequent Processes
 section.
The key things to remember about out of order corrections:
  • You can't change the sequence of events in a worker's history. If you correct the date of a staffing event, the new effective date must be:
    • On or after
       the date of the previous event in the staffing history.
    • On or before
       the date of the next event in the staffing history.
  • Workday doesn't apply corrections to later events in a worker's history.
    There’s an exception for the
    Change Organization Assignments for Worker
     business process. When you correct an organization assignment event out of order, Workday automatically updates future events. Organization assignment events in the future with the same value will update to the corrected value. Workday updates future events until there's an event with a different value for the organization type.
  • If you correct a completed staffing event, Workday doesn't validate the correction against the hiring restrictions that you defined for the worker's job or position.
  • Workday doesn't provide additional security for out of order correction. Anyone who has permission to initiate one of these staffing events can correct it out of order. Workday recommends that you restrict the correct action to administrators.
    There’s an exception for the
    Change Organization Assignments for Worker
     business process. Workday provides additional security for correcting organization assignment events out of order through the
    Maintain Functionality for Staffing Transactions
     task.