Create Eligibility Waiting Periods for Compensation Review Processes

Security: Set Up: Merit and Bonus
domain in the Advanced Compensation functional area.

Create or update a compensation eligibility waiting period on the

Create Eligibility Waiting Period

task, which determines whether employees are eligible for a raise or a bonus. You base the rule on a single value, such as a hire date. If you run the process before the waiting period expires, you can add employees in a waiting period an exception with a target of zero.

You can also use these web services:

Get Eligibility Waiting Period

Put Eligibility Waiting Period

Employees in the waiting period don't automatically receive an award when the waiting period is over. Run the process again after the waiting period ends to give awards to these employees.

Access the

Create Eligibility Waiting Period

task.

Enter the

Number

and select a

Unit

value for the rule logic.

Example: To configure a 1 year waiting period, select 12
and Months
.

Select a

From Date

from which Workday starts counting.

If you selected

Date of Last Base Pay change

, you can select

Excluded Criteria

to exclude events that Workday won't consider as an increase.

You can select:

Any number of staffing events to exclude.

Event categories and reasons regardless of segment security configuration.

You can define types of excluded criteria on the

Maintain Event Categories and Reasons

task.

When configuring the plan, you can select the

Include Active Employees in Waiting Period

option. If selected, Workday includes employees assigned to the plan and in the waiting period, as of the

Process Period End Date

, in the compensation review. However, Workday includes these employees as exceptions with a target of zero. Consider:

Eligibility waiting period: 3 Months from Hire Date
.

Include Active Employees in Waiting Period

: selected.

Process Period End Date

: December 31.

Two employees have different hire dates, September 23 and October 6.

Hire Date	Eligible for award on December 31?
September 25	Yes, September 23 to December 31 is more than 3 months. The waiting period ended on December 23.
October 6	No, October 6 to December 31 is less than 3 months. This employee is included in the process as an exception with a target of zero.

Assign the waiting period to merit and bonus plans. You can assign the same waiting period to multiple plans.