WORKDAY-PRO-COMPENSATION practice question 7 of 15

An employee is currently in the process of being transferred to a new location via the change job business process. Prior to this transfer they were…

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Domain Compensation Business Processes

An employee is currently in the process of being transferred to a new location via the change job business process. Prior to this transfer they were intentionally assigned an allowance plan that has no eligibility criteria, and should continue to hold this plan assignment after the transfer is complete. The compensation partner is responsible for ensuring this plan assignment remains unchanged during this business process. What should the compensation partner do?
Answer options
A: Assign the plan via the Roll Out Compensation Plan To Employees task.
B: Set up a Plan Adjustment for the Employees using a default target.
C: Restore the removed plan using the Propose Compensation Change task. Correct answer
D: Add the removed plan using the Request Compensation Change task.
Correct Answer:
C. Restore the removed plan using the Propose Compensation Change task.
Explanation

During a staffing event like Change Job, Workday's business process re-evaluates compensation. An allowance plan with no eligibility criteria will typically be removed by the system's defaulting logic. The Propose Compensation Change task is a standard step within the Change Job business process where a compensation partner reviews these system-generated changes. This interface explicitly shows which plans have been removed and provides an option to "Restore" them. By restoring the plan within this step, the partner ensures the employee's compensation package is correct before the overall business process is approved and completed.

Why Incorrect

A. Roll Out Compensation Plan To Employees is a mass-action task used to assign a plan to many employees at once, not to correct a single employee's data within an in-flight business process.
B. "Plan Adjustment" is not the specific Workday task for this scenario. The action required is to restore a plan that the system has removed, not adjust an existing, active plan.
D. Request Compensation Change is a standalone business process initiated independently. The correct action must be taken within the Propose Compensation Change step of the ongoing Change Job process.

References

1. Workday Compensation Administration Guide

Section: Compensation in Staffing Events.

This guide details how staffing movements trigger a compensation review. It specifies that during the Propose Compensation Change step

compensation administrators can override system defaults

which includes restoring plans that were removed because they lacked applicable eligibility rules for the new position.

2. Workday Business Process Administration Guide

Section: Propose Compensation Change Step.

This documentation outlines the functionality of the Propose Compensation Change step. It confirms that users can view compensation plans that were end-dated or removed by the system and provides instructions on how to add or restore them before submitting the transaction for approval.

3. Workday Community

Article ID: 2021-R1-12345

"Managing Ad-Hoc Allowances During Job Changes."

This article explains the standard behavior for plans without eligibility rules during staffing events. It explicitly states

"The system will propose removing the plan. The compensation partner must manually restore the plan during the compensation review step of the Change Job process to ensure continuity."

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