Employee Records in TouteGestion HR & Payroll
The employee record is the operational identity used by HR and payroll workflows. TouteGestion keeps that identity inside the organisation so payroll, loans, attendance, leave and other employee processes can reference the same employee rather than creating separate names in each module.
1. Create the employee identity
Under People → Employees, the implemented create flow requires Employee number, First name and Last name. Work email, phone and start date are optional at creation. TouteGestion creates the employee for the current organisation with employment status Active.
2. Use a stable employee number
The employee number is part of the required master record and should follow the organisation's own numbering policy. It gives staff a stable operational reference even where two employees have similar names.
3. Complete employment and payroll context
After the base identity exists, maintain the employee's applicable employment, organisational and payroll information through the relevant HR & Payroll workflows. Do not create a second employee merely because a pay-related attribute changes.
4. Reuse the employee across workflows
Employee-linked features such as payroll runs, employee loans, attendance, leave, expenses and employee documents are designed around the governed employee identity. This is what prevents HR and payroll from maintaining conflicting copies of the same person.
5. Recruitment can create the employment record
The recruitment hiring workflow also contains a controlled conversion from an accepted offer to an employee. That path is intentionally different from simply inserting another employee record and supports first-time hire/rehire handling.
Example
When employee EMP-0042 joins, HR creates the employee once with their name, work contact and start date. Payroll and a later employee-loan request reference EMP-0042's employee record. A change to pay or department should update the relevant employment/pay context, not create EMP-0042 again.
What the record does
Creating the employee establishes the organisation-scoped master identity and active employment status used by downstream modules. It does not by itself calculate salary, approve leave or create a payroll payment; those remain separate controlled workflows.
Questions to validate in your own process
- Employee number assigned
- Legal/operational name checked
- Work contact captured where available
- Start date checked
- Duplicate employee avoided
- Employment/payroll context completed
- Downstream records reference the same employee
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