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2407503 - Error Message: "Rehire failed", While Rehiring Employee in Personnel Administration Work Center

Symptom

Your requirement is to Rehire a Service Agent XYZ (where XYZ represents the Service Agent) as an Internal Employee in Personnel Administration work center. Upon Rehiring and saving changes, you receive the error:

Rehire failed
Error activating employee assignment at position; see detailed messages
Employee XYZ (ID YYYYY) has more than one position assignment per time frame

*XYZ represents the Employee and YYYYY represents the Employee ID

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Personnel Administration work center
  2. Go to Regular Tasks view
  3. Choose the tab relevant to the Country in which you would Rehire the Employee XYZ
  4. Select Rehire Employee
  5. Fill the required details
  6. Select Save
  7. System throws errors

Cause

System does not allow a Service Agent and Employee with the same Employee ID to have the same Job and Organizational Assignment in the system.

Resolution

Before Rehiring the Employee as an Internal Employee, remove the Job and Organizational assignment for Service Agent XYZ in the Business Partner workcenter.

Keywords

Rehire failed, Error activating employee assignment at position, Employee has more than one position assignment per time frame, Service Agent, Employee , KBA , rehire failed , error activating employee assignment , rehire , SRD-HR-PAD , Personnel Administration , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions