Contract

The Contract option, available on the menu, allows the performance of employee's Employment Contract Renewal and/or Change, in order to provide Management of Contracts by other integration.

Renewal means same type contracts that are being extended, respecting limits establish by the contract type. Change means the change of effective or closed contract type.

Every employment contract is ruled under a certain effectiveness period. It can be renewed and complies with the provision in the effective legislation which, in this case, establishes the last contract to be treated in a different way, obeying the rule field of Minimum Term and Maximum Term of the last contract, according to Article 139, defines in table S011 - Employment Contract Types.

The employment contract data are considered for the calculation of days, vacation, termination, prior notice, period of experience, renewal, etc.

The transactions carried out are also registered in a Log file in format TXT, which can be viewed by the Process Log option. in the Contract Renewal/Amendment screen.

Procedures

Renewing and/or amending employment contracts:

1. In Employees, click Contract.

A screen for data information of the selected employee's employment contract is displayed.

2. Fill out the fields according to the following instructions:
Batch Processing

Check this option (), so that the amendment and/or renewal is made per employee batch, so that several employees receive this maintenance at once.

Renewal/Amendment

Select maintenance option to be carried out in contract(s), whether renewal or amendment.

Replaces Log/Adds Log

Select the option defining if the maintenance carried out in contract batches must replace the already existing log file, or if the occurrence must be registered in an already existing file.

Registration/Name of Employee/Renewal Contract

These fields are filled out automatically according to the employee's prior selection for contract maintenance.

If the Batch Processing option has been selected, the field information is erased, and Quick Filter option is enabled, on the bottom of the screen, so that the employees renewing/amending the contracts are selected.

New Contract Period

Enter the data defining the employee's new contract period, being:

Start Date/End Date

Enter start and end date of the period defined for the contract.

The field End Date is filled out automatically by the system when the employee is dismissed in thus contractual period, by the routine Termination.

For each contract amended or renewed, the start date is saved with the prior contract end date + one day. The end date is saved according to the following parameter for Renewal Days or Renewal for the Same Period.

Renewal for

Enter contract renewal data, according to the case, being:

Days

Enter amount of days to be considered to renewal the contract.

For the same period

Select () this option when the contractual period must be equal to the effective contract period.

Contracts expired until

If the Batch Processing option has been selected, enter expiring date of contracts to be considered in maintenance.

Reason for Renewal

Select reason for contractual amendment/renewal, according to table - Types of Reason.

New type of Contract

The data for Contract Type are filled out automatically, since they were linked during the registration, and can consider:

Type

Description

No term

Undefined effectiveness time.

Fixed term

Effectiveness with defined end date allowing renewal, if agreed.

Uncertain term

Replaces employee absent due to disease, accident, etc, according to Article 129 and 143 of the Work Code of Portugal.

No contract

According to effective legislation, it is a valid situation for trainees.

However, for renewal end, only contracts of type Fixed term can be renewed, as long as there is an end date registered in the Employees register.

If the option Contractual Amendment is selected, select the new contract type according to table S011 - Contract Types.

3. Enter the fields, check them and confirm.

Once the process in confirmed, the renewals that were within the limits established by the contract type are carried out and registered in the contract history. The ones outside the limit are not considered.

In both cases, if the Batch Processing option is selected, event log files are generated.

4. At the end of the process, the system returns to the browse window of Employees register.
5. The following options are available at the bottom of the window:
History
Quick Filter
Process Log
Process
Cancel - click the button to leave the option Contract Amendment/Renewal.
6. Select the options according to your needs.
7. Once the necessary data is informed, confirm it and return to the browser in the Employees Register

See Also

The following routines provide information used in the contract maintenance:

Table Maintenance:
S011 - Work Contact Types
S012 - Reason Types
Employees Register - Contracts Tab