This article aims to provide valuable insights for individuals who are planning to attend an Oracle Absence Management interview. Specifically, it will cover some of the commonly asked interview questions related to Compensatory Absence Plan, a feature of the Oracle Absence Management system.

By going through the questions covered in this article, candidates can prepare themselves better for the interview, and gain a better understanding of the Compensatory Absence Plan feature.

Question 1 :  What is the Unit of Measure (OUM) when you configure a compensatory absence plan?

Answer : As the primary reason to configure a compensatory plan is to integrate it with Oracle Time and Labor (OTL), unit of measure (UOM) for a compensatory plan is defaulted to Hours, which can’t be changed.

Question 2 : What are the different expiration options available for compensatory absence plan?

Answer : In Oracle Absence Management, currently there are four expiration options available for Compensatory Absence Plans that an organization can choose from. These options are as follows

  1. Acquisition date – Compensatory time expires after a certain amount of time from when it was earned. For example, if you earned compensatory time on 15th December and the expiration time is set to six months, it will expire on 15th June.
  2. End of acquisition pay period – Compensatory time expires after a certain amount of time from the end of the pay period it was earned in. For example, if you earned compensatory time on 15th December and the pay period ends on 31st, and the expiration time is set to six months, it will expire on 30th June.
  3. End of acquisition week – Compensatory time expires after a certain amount of time from the end of the week it was earned in. For example, if you earned compensatory time on 15th December and the week ends on 20th December, and the expiration time is set to six months, it will expire on 20th June.
  4. No expiration – The compensatory time earned does not expire.

Question 3 : Can you override the expiration date for some employees, if yes, how do you do that?

Answer : Yes expiration date of employees can be overridden by administrator and/or line managers provided plan configuration allows the same. To allow expiration override once can go to Entries and Balances tab and enable options for Expiration Date Update for administrators and managers separately.

Question 4 : How can you only allow administrator to update the expiration date but not to managers?

Answer : To achieve this we simply enable the Expiration Date Update checkbox only for Administrator and keep it unchecked for managers.

Question 5 : What will happen if you do not attach any eligibility profile with a compensatory absence plan? Every one will become eligible for the plan or no one or something else?

Answer : If no eligibility profile is associated with a Compensatory plan or any other absence plan, then all employees within that legislative data group will be eligible for the plan for the legislation absence plan is configured.

Hope these questions were helpful, if you are new to compensatory time off plan, you can go through this article Learn to Configure Oracle Compensatory Absence Plan Step by Step, which will provide step by step guide to configure the plan from scratch.

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