Updating the HR Primary Indicator in HRS

Overview

Employees can hold multiple jobs concurrently. Employees may have only one primary job at one time. In cases where the Employee's Primary employee record has been terminated, another employee record must be designated as the Primary employee record. This document reviews how to update the HR Job Indicator.

Process Considerations:

Updating the Job Indicator has NO impact on, and should not be confused with, the Benefits Primary Job. To update the Benefits Primary Job, reference KB 27798.
In cases where an employee has two or more records and they are at different institutions, communication and collaboration should occur between multi-campus HR Staff/Campus Division Representatives to determine the correct Primary vs Secondary records.
Various downstream systems utilize the Primary Job Indicator:
- OIM
- Info Access
- UW Madison White pages
As a best business practice, the Primary Job Indicator should be maintained.
Madison Only: When an employee is hired into a concurrent job or position through JEMS, the system automatically assigns both positions as the Primary Job. An HR Professional will have to update the employee's Job Data to update the job indicator on the job that is secondary.
The following logic should be followed to determine which job should be primary:

1.	If multiple jobs with Empl Class of FA (Faculty) where one or more are for Summer (Pay Basis = "V" Summer Service or "S" Summer Session) and one is Academic Year (Pay Basis = "C" Academic), the Academic Year job is Primary, else
2.	Pay Basis is not equal to "N" (i.e. paid position/job)
3.	If more than one Job exists with Pay Basis not equal to "N," or all Jobs have a Pay Basis = "N," choose the Job with largest FTE.
4.	If there is more than 1 job with the same "largest" FTE, assign the Primary Job based on the following order of priority in Empl Class: 1) LI 2) FA 3) AS 4) CP 5) CJ 6) ET 7) SA 8) CL 9) OT 10) SH
5.	If more than 1 job exists with the same FTE and Empl Class, assign Primary Job based on the earliest Job Start Date among these jobs (most current Hire, Rehire, Transfer effective date for each Empl Record, unless Hire Reason = 999 with a Conversion Date Effective as of 2/10/11, then check the Original Start Date on the Employment Data hyperlink OR Rehire Reason = 070 Rescind Term, or 072 Terminated in Error, ignore that effective date and look for the previous Action of Hire, Rehire, Transfer)
6.	If more than 1 job exists with the same FTE, Empl Class and Job Start Date, assign the Primary Job based on lowest Empl_ Record.

You may click on the links below to navigate directly to a section:

Instructions

Navigation: Workforce Administration > Job Information > Job Data

Enter Name or Empl ID of Employee.
Click Search button.
Two or more Empl Records appear for Employee. Select the record that needs to be changed.
Click the plus sign to add a new row.
Enter the Effective Date of the change.
Change the Effective Sequence number if needed.
Set the Action drop-down menu to Data Change.
Set the Reason drop-down menu to Change Job Indicator.
Set the Job Indicator drop-down menu to either Primary Job or Secondary Job.
You may receive a soft warning message if the employee that you are updating already has a Primary Job. Click OK.

Click Save.
Repeat these steps to update any additional Job Records that need to be modified.

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Additional Resources

Related KBs:

Get Help

Click HERE to contact UW Shared Services - Service Operations Department or HERE for the UWSS IT HelpDesk if you have any issues with these instructions.

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