Personnel > Maintenance > Employment Info
This tab is used to maintain basic employment information for an employee. The data includes employment dates, job assignments, contract information, and job termination dates. Before using this tab, each employee must have a demographic record.
Note: If an employee starts after the first day of their contract, then the employee start date will match the Begin Date under Calendar/Local Info on the Job Info tab.
Sample Staff Job/Pay Data Images by Pay Type (prints separately)
The following fields are required:
- Employee Status
- Highest Degree
- Percent Day Employed
- Original Employment Date (or Latest Re-Employ Date )
- Employment Type
Although all of the fields on this tab are not required, some of the fields are used for reporting to TEA, TRS, IRS, and SSA.
Complete the necessary employee information fields.
| Field | Description |
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| Employee Status |
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0 - Pending - An employee with a pending status indicates that the employee is new or inactive with a demo record but does not have payroll records. The employee does not need to be active to have payroll records set up in CYR or NYR. However, for NYR budget purposes, the employee must have payroll records in NYR. And, for CYR payroll purposes, the employee must have payroll records in CYR.
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❏ Under Employment Dates:
| Original Emp. Date | Type the original date on which the individual was employed by the LEA in the MM-DD-YYYY format. This date does not change if the employee left the LEA and then returned. This field is required to extract the employee for State Reporting. Note: Employees are only included in the Instructor directory in Grade Reporting if they have an Original Emp. Date or Latest Re-Employ Date. If an employee does not have an employment date or if the employee has a termination date that is greater than their latest employment date, then the employee is not included in the Instructor directory. |
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| Latest Re-Employ Date | Type the date the employee began his current period of employment in the MM-DD-YYYY format. The field applies only to employees who worked for the LEA, left the LEA, and then returned. If the employee never left the LEA, the field is left blank. |
| Termination Date | Type the date that the termination of the employee went into effect in the MM-DD-YYYY format. This field is used only for employees who have been terminated from their positions. When a date is entered in the Date field, the system deselects all remaining months for the year in the Unemployment Eligibility section, except for the actual termination month. The termination date and reason are used to exclude the employee from TEA reporting. |
| Termination Reason | Click  to select the reason the employee was terminated. The termination reasons are maintained on the Personnel > Tables > Job/Contract > Termination Reason tab. |
| Eligible for Re-hire | Select if the employee is eligible for rehire. |
| Percent Day Employed | PEIMS Reporting Element Type the percentage of each day for which this individual is employed, which indicates the percentage of a standard LEA workday for which the employee is hired to work. This field is required. For an employee on contract, the percentage can be determined directly from the contract: full-time = 100, half-time = 050, and so on. For a non-contract employee, the percentage can be determined as follows. Example: The standard workday for the LEA is 7 hours. An employee is hired to work for 4 hours per day. This data element is coded as 057 for the employee because 4/7 = .571 is rounded down. Employees such as cafeteria workers and bus drivers who work only a few hours each day should not be reported as 100 in this field. Consider the number of hours worked in relation to the standard LEA workday, not the job. The field can be a maximum of three digits. |
❏ Under Employment Types:
| Employment Type |
Required TRS reporting field.
• F - Half-Time or more
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| Sub Type | Click to select the type of substitute teacher. This field is only displayed if the Pay Type field is set to 4 (Substitute) on the Job Info tab. |
| Highly Qualified | Select to indicate that the teacher is highly qualified. |
| Year Round | Select if the employee is employed on the year-round calendar. |
| Extract ID | Type a three-character, locally assigned code (e.g., 187 - 187-day employees, JUL - employees who start work in July, 12M - 12-month employees, etc.) for grouping employees, or click to select an extract ID. These codes are used to group employees for mass updates. The extract ID information is maintained on the Personnel > Tables > Job/Contract > Extract ID tab. |
| Highest Degree | PEIMS Reporting Element Click to select the highest degree the employee received from a certified learning institution.This field is required. |
❏ Under Retiree Information:
| Retirement Date | Type the employee's retirement date in the MM-DD-YYYY format. |
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| Retiree Employment Type |
Required TRS reporting field. (for retirees)
• C - Combination of Substitute and Half-Time or less
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| Take Retiree Surcharge | Select if the LEA should pay the TRS surcharges for retirees. When selected, the TRS retiree pension surcharge (based on gross pay) is calculated, and the TRS-Care surcharge (RI deduction code) is assessed during payroll calculations. Therefore, extreme care should be taken to make sure that the check box is set accurately for the process being performed. Retiree surcharges depend on retiree dates and vary based on the retiree; therefore, it is important to reference the TRS Reporting Entity Portal for specific details. |
| NY Take Retiree Surcharge | Select if the LEA should pay the TRS surcharges for retirees for next year processes. When selected, the TRS retiree pension surcharge (based on gross pay) is calculated, and the TRS-Care surcharge (RI deduction code) is assessed during the Interface NY Payroll to NY Budget extract. |
❏ Under Years Experience:
Professional column:
| Total | PEIMS Reporting Element Type the total years of professional experience for the employee. The field can be a maximum of two digits. This information is included in the Teacher Service Record. |
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| In District | PEIMS Reporting Element Type the total years of professional experience for the employee in the LEA. The field can be a maximum of two digits. |
| Prior Teaching | PEIMS Reporting Element Type the total number of years that the employee has previously held a teaching position in one or more educational institutions. |
| Creditable Year of Service | PEIMS Reporting Element Select to indicate that the employee is a teacher who currently qualifies for the Teacher Incentive Allotment or has been submitted by the LEA for a new or change of designation, and has been employed by the LEA and compensated or will be compensated by the LEA for a creditable year of service. TEA defines a creditable year of service as 90 days at 100% of the day (equivalent to four and one-half months or a full semester) or 180 days required at 50-99% of the day and compensated for that employment. |
Non-Professional column:
| Total | Type the total years of non-professional experience for the employee. The field can be a maximum of two digits. |
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| In District | Type the total years of non-professional experience for the employee in the LEA. The field can be a maximum of two digits. |
Note: When extracting teacher service records, the Years Experience fields are populated based on the TRS Member Pos field from the Job Info page, and the Years Experience fields from the Employment Info page. Refer to the Extract Teacher Service Record Checklist.
❏ Under Electronic Consent:
| W-2 |
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If Yes is selected, the employee must log on to EmployeePortal to print the W-2. Note: Inactive employees can continue to view and print their W-2 information in EmployeePortal depending on the LEA. If the LEA opts to restrict inactive employee access (changes the EmployeePortal password or deletes the user's access), the employee will receive a printed, mailed copy of their W-2. |
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| 1095 |
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If Yes is selected, the employee must log on to EmployeePortal to print the 1095. Note: Inactive employees can continue to view and print their 1095 information in EmployeePortal depending on the LEA. If the LEA opts to restrict inactive employee access (changes the EmployeePortal password or deletes the user's access), the employee will receive a printed, mailed copy of their 1095. |
❏ Under Service Record:
| Full Semester | Select if the employee worked a full semester that was less than 90 days. |
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| Grade Taught | Type the grades the employee has taught (e.g., K-5). This information is included in the Teacher Service Record. |
❏ Under Contract Information:
The contract information is created and maintained on the Personnel > Tables > Job/Contract tabs.
| Class | Click to select the code that identifies any contract type or class identified by the LEA. |
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| Term | Click to select the code that identifies the terms of the contract held by the employee. Examples would be continuing, probationary, 1 year, and no contract. |
| Year | Click to select the two-digit code that identifies in which year of the contract period the employee is currently working. For example, 02 would indicate the second year of the contract period. |
❏ Under Extended Leave:
| Begin | Type the date on which the employee begins an extended leave of absence in the MM-DD-YYYY format. |
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| End | Type the date on which the employee ends the extended leave of absence in the MM-DD-YYYY format. The end date cannot be prior to the begin date. |
❏ Under Fingerprint Information:
The Fingerprint fields are used only for tracking purposes.
| Status | Click to select the code to indicate the status of an employee's data. |
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| Extract Date | (This field is obsolete as the Extract Fingerprint utility is not available in ASCENDER.) The extract date is populated when the employee's data is extracted using the Extract Fingerprint utility. You can change the extract date, if necessary. |
| Fingerprint Date | Type the date on which the employee's fingerprint data was entered in the MM-DD-YYYY format. |
❏ Under ERS Retiree Health:
| Current Year Elig | Select if the employee is an Employment Retirement System of Texas (ERS) retiree and is eligible to receive health coverage for the current year through ERS. If selected, the employee does not pay the Member Insurance Contribution (IN), and the employer does not pay the Reporting Entity TRS-Care payment (RI). |
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| Next Year Elig | Select if the employee is an Employment Retirement System of Texas (ERS) retiree, and is eligible to receive health coverage for the next year through ERS. |
❏ Under Auxiliary Role ID:
| Auxiliary Role ID | PEIMS Reporting Element Click to select the employee's auxiliary role ID, which indicates the capacity in which a non-exempt auxiliary employee serves. This must be reported for all employees who serve in a non-professional or non-paraprofessional role. Employees reported with an Auxiliary Role ID are reported with the base pay associated with object code 6129. |
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| Begin Date | Type the effective date of the employee's selected auxiliary role ID in the MM-DD-YYYY format, or select a date from the calendar. This date is required if the Auxiliary Role ID field is added or changed. |
| End Date | Type the end date of the employee's selected auxiliary role ID in the MM-DD-YYYY format, or select a date from the calendar. An end date should only be entered when the position has ended. |
Notes:
The drop-down options are populated based on the year in the School Year for PEIMS Codes field on the Tables > District HR Options page.
This data is part of the StaffEducationOrgEmploymentAssociationExtension complex type collected in PEIMS Submission 1.
Professional and paraprofessional staff may also be reported with an Auxiliary Role ID if they serve the LEA in a non-professional or non-paraprofessional role. A classroom teacher (Role ID 087) who also drives a bus route for the school would require an Auxiliary Role ID to be reported. In this case, the employee would have at least two payroll accounting entries: one with object code 6119, and one with object code 6129. Because there may be duplication between Role ID and Auxiliary Role ID, the district must use its discretion in determining if the employee is serving in a professional or non-professional capacity.
❏ Under Paraprofessional Certification:
| Para Cert | PEIMS Reporting Element Select to indicate that the paraprofessional employee is certified. This field must be selected if the responsibility is 033 - Educational Aide and the population served is 06 - Special Education students. |
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| Begin Date | Type the effective date of the employee's paraprofessional certification in the MM-DD-YYYY format, or select a date from the calendar. This date is required if the Para Cert checkbox is selected or changed. |
| End Date | Type the end date of the employee's paraprofessional certification in the MM-DD-YYYY format, or select a date from the calendar. |
❏ Click Save.
Notes:
- The Estimated Annual Salary (Hourly Employees Only) (pay type 3) section was removed from this page. For hourly employees, use the Payroll > Maintenance > Staff Job/Pay Data > Job Info tab to update contract totals with a zero balance for reporting purposes.
- The Unemployment Eligibility section was removed from this page. Use the Payroll > Maintenance > Staff Job/Pay Data > Pay Info tab to update unemployment eligibility.