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Last Updated: 2025-02-07
Reference: Supported Retro Events

Reference: Supported Retro Events

The retro pay calculation supports specific retro events in various categories for active and terminated workers. You can access the:
  • All Supported Payroll Retro Transaction Types
     report to view what countries support each retro transaction type.
  • Payroll Retro Event Categories
     tab on the
    View Payroll Event Categories
     report to view the individual events included in a category.
Event Category
Description
Additional jobs
The retro pay calculation can process a retro additional job when the new job is in the same pay group and company as the worker's existing job.
You can enter a retro change for a worker with multiple positions. Workday then recalculates pay components for all of the worker's positions that are in the pay group.
Payroll for Ireland doesn't support additional jobs.
Benefits
The retro pay calculation supports:
  • Changes to rates and deductions, such as
    Change Benefits
     and
    Change Benefits Annual Rate
    .
  • Compensation changes that cause Workday to recalculate benefit deductions configured to recalculate during retro.
Compensation
The retro pay calculation supports several compensation changes, including one-time payments and bonuses.
Leave of absence (request and return)
The retro pay calculation processes retro leave of absence for leave types that both:
  • Have payroll effect.
  • Are part of your run category.
Other data change
The retro pay calculation processes these change job events in the same tax authority:
  • Data change
  • Demotion
  • Promotion
  • Lateral move
  • Swap positions
  • Transfer
Payroll input
You can process retro payroll input for:
  • Deductions that you set to recalculate during retro.
  • Earnings, unless you set them to always gross up or not to recalculate during retro.
Retro Company Change (UK)
When you submit a company change for a worker effective in a completed period, the retro differences are calculated for each of the periods between the period in which the company transfer falls and the current period, and those differences are brought forward to the current pay period.
Retro End Additional Job (CAN)
The retro pay calculation supports retroactively:
  • Ending an additional job.
  • Corrections to ending an additional job.
  • Rescinding the ending an additional job
Retro hire
The retro pay calculation supports:
  • Corrections to a retro hire (CAN, USA).
  • Hires entered retroactively (CAN, IRL, UK, USA).
  • Hires entered retroactively for workers with or without payroll results on the previous pay period (FRA).
Retro Pay Group Change (CAN)
The retro pay calculation supports changing a worker's pay group in a retro pay period.
Retro Tax Authority Change (CAN)
The retro pay calculation supports retroactively changing a worker's tax authority due to a work location or residence change.
Retro transfer (IRL)
When you retroactively transfer a worker between companies under the same Employer Registration Number (ERN), Workday calculates the retro differences for each of the periods between the period in which the transfer falls and the current period, and brings those differences forward to the current pay period.
When you retroactively transfer a worker between companies under different Employer Registration Numbers (ERN), you need to report the employment end date to Revenue. See Concept: Retro Differences That Require Manual Adjustments.
Payroll for Ireland doesn't support retro transfers between pay groups.
Retro termination
The retro pay calculation supports:
  • Terminations entered retroactively.
  • Rescinding terminations retroactively.
  • Corrections to a retro termination.
Time entry
The retro pay calculation supports retro time entry for time tracking.
Time off
When you enter retro time off, the retro pay calculation recalculates:
  • Paid or unpaid time off earnings directly affected by the change.
  • Earnings indirectly affected by the change, such as when time off reduces base pay earnings.