Types of Employee Attributes

What ever employee groups and employee subgroups you have defined in enterprise structure, for them, you have to assign one of the following employee attribute statuses to those employee groups and employee subgroups. There are 4 types of employee attributes named-

(A). Activity status- The activity status can be set as follows:
1 = Active employee
2 = Retiree
3 = Early retiree
9 = Other
4 = Part-time work for retirees

(B). Employment status-The employment status can be set as follows:
1 = Industrial worker/hourly paid worker
2 = Salaried employee
3 = Civil servant
9 = Other

(C). Education and training status-The training status can be set as follows:
1 = Trainee/apprentice
2 = Trained
9 = Other

(D). Salaried employee category

Where do we define employee attributes - activity, employment and training status?

You can follow the below path:

SPRO -> Personnel Management - Personnel Administration - Organizational data - Organizational assignment -> Define employee attribute

Configuration of employee status can be done by following path:

Personnel management 
|…………………….personnel administration
|………….organizational assignment 
|……………………..basic settings
|………………………..maintain employee attribute 

This status is very important to know about the employee relationship with the company, this employee status is fetch in the infotype 0000 action.  In my point view templates are not possible to copy from country to country bcoz the country grouping is different currency, geographical location, HR policies and procedure, it will be a problem while running the payroll instant of that, I suggest you to create the template manually.

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