On this tab, you can enter general information about a new employment contract by specifying the employee, position, department, and entity where the employee will work, and other information.
The required fields are: Employee, Employment Date, Entity, Contract Type, and Rates Schedule.
The "Employment contract Contract (create)" form. The Main tab
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In the Entity field, select the legal entity of your company which creates this employment contract. The Entity field is available if the Multi-Company Accounting option is selected on the Administration > Settings > General Settings form. The default entity for all users can be selected on the Accounting > Master Data > Entities form. Also, you can specify your personal default entity, for details refer to Personal Settings.
In the Department field, select the department where the employee will work.
In the Position field, select the position of the employee in the specified department.
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In the Type of Employee Contract field, you can select the type of employment contract from the following options:
- Limited-Term Contract: If the employment contract has an end-of-contract date (generally, contract duration is one or a few years) on which the employment contract is considered expired. This option affects how the end-of-service benefit amount is calculated.
- Unlimited-Term Contract: If the employment contract can be cancelled either when employee quits the job (resigns from job) or when the employee is fired (dismissed). This option affects how the end-of-service benefit amount is calculated.
Use the End of Contract Date field to enter the date when the limited-term contracts contract ends.
The Schedule field is populated with the default work schedule which you can replace with the schedule assigned to this employee. The selected work schedule will be used for populating work sheets.
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