Concept: Retro Events and Terminated Workers

When you configure run categories to include workers with supported retro events and retro differences processed in payroll, you can calculate their pay after you retroactively:

Terminate their employment.
Rescind a termination.
Correct a termination date.
Enter supported events for terminated workers during or after the period that includes the termination date.

Workday Payroll for France supports DSN reporting for retro terminations only in these cases:

Retroactive hire followed by a retroactive termination.
Retroactive termination in the previous month of the DSN.
Retroactive termination followed by rehiring in the current month of the DSN.
Retroactive termination followed by a retroactive rehiring in the same month as the retroactive termination.

Workday doesn't support DSN reporting when there’s a change in establishment due to a retroactive termination and rehiring.

When you retroactively terminate workers and run the

Retro Pay Calculation

task, Workday processes:

Their pay results until the termination date.
Any other supported retro events you enter for them.

For midperiod terminations, Workday creates subperiods and prorates the pay component amounts when you configure it.

Retroactively terminating a worker on the last day of the month without rehiring them can produce a retroactive result missing a target pay period. This occurs when there’s no difference retro difference in the gross pay. To ensure accurate DSN reporting, add payroll input to create a payroll result for the current payroll period before processing retro.

Workers terminated retroactively can have negative retro differences, which can result in negative net pay for the pay period. Example: Retroactively terminating employment of a salaried worker. You can resolve negative net pay manually such as by suspending the retro result or offsetting it with a memo earning.

You can retroactively terminate workers with an effective date in a period where they have no existing payroll results, such as when you:

Terminate a worker's employment and rescind the termination.
Move a retro termination date to another completed pay period.

Workday creates a zero pay result for any missing payroll periods, from the period start date to the termination date. The employee self-service

Pay

dashboard and worker profile hide payslips generated by retro termination events with zero pay results.

James receives a biweekly salary of 5,000 processed twice a month and prorated by calendar days. James leaves his job on July 10, but the payroll partner enters the termination on July 15. Workday already processed James's 5,000 wage.

When you run the retro pay calculation, Workday creates subperiods and generates a negative 2,000 retro difference.