PeopleSoft HRMS Instance and Assignment Dates

Since PeopleSoft 8.9,different date fields are introduced in HRMS to track the employee's organization relationship and their additional assignment. Having clear understanding of these dates will help in developing better reports and make best use of PeopleSoft delivered functionality. You can see the values for these fields in the JOB_DATA Component on the Employment Information data page.

Below are the overview of these dates.

Field	Meaning
HIRE_DT	First date that this EMPLID/EMPL_RCD was hired (or started as a CWR) into an instance. Does not get a value for EMPL_RCDs created as ADL or ASG. Set when action of HIR is used.
LAST_HIRE_DT	Latest date that this EMPLID/ EMPL_RCD was hired or re-hired (or started or re-started as a CWR) into an instance. Does not get a value for EMPL_RCD s created as ADL or ASG. Set when action of HIR or REH is used.
ASGN_START_DT	First date this EMPLID/ EMPL_RCD was started (either as hire or additional assignment).
LST_ASGN_START_DT	Latest date that this EMPLID/ EMPL_RCD was started or restarted.
TERMINATION_DT	If on the instance, then this is the also the date the instance was terminated or completed.
ORIG_HIRE_DT	Earliest date that this EMPLID/ERN INSTANCE was associated with the organization - regardless of what the EFFDT is for the first row in JOB. Customers can enter an earlier date here than the earliest JOB.HIRE_DT.

On an instance record. you can modify the ORIG_HIRE_DT (Original Start Date field) and ORG_INST_SRV_DT (Org Instance Service Date field) dates if you wish.

On an additional assignment record, the data in the organizational instance will be displayed from the instance record and is not update-able.