In Employee Module of HR Kenya, user must pay attention to some must-required fields (i.e. Employee’s name, Department, job position, Nationality, etc.) when create a new employee, which is red as below:
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In case the employee’s Department is not available to be selected, HR can create Department right at Employee tab as below. Otherwise, HR can create Department at the Department tab.
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Setting up related contact (i.e. Manager, Overtime Approver) enables HR to automatically generate payroll entries for employee when running payslip (also for overtime, leaves).
*NOTE:
- The module is created with default Kenya currency as “KES”.
- Related User & Related Contact are important fields. They are required once you create Leaves, Overtime, Timesheet, Employee Payslip,… When choosing Related User, Related Contact will be automatically changed accordingly > Employee Name will be changed correspondingly.
- Please change the right Accounting Account for employee by clicking on related contact. In accounting tab, change to the right account.