2839314 - "Error occurred while saving the concurrent employment" upon approving Concurrent Employment Workflows

 The error "Error occurred while saving the concurrent employment" appears when approving a Concurrent Employment Workflow

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• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Concurrent Employment
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Workflows

1. Go to Employee Profile and click Take Action > Add: Concurrent Employment.
2. Enter a Hire Date that is before the Hire Date of the First Employment. Fill in all required fields.
3. Upon approving the Workflow, the error message is received "Error occurred while saving the concurrent employment".

The Hire Date used for the Concurrent Employment is before the Hire Date of the First Employment.

To resolve this error, cancel or send back the Concurrent Employment Workflow and set the Hire Date to be after the Hire Date of the First Employment.

1. Proxy as the Approver and click on Approve Requests.
2. Open the Workflow for Concurrent Employment.
3. Click the Send Back button to send the Workflow back to the Initiator.
4. Proxy as the Initiator and click on Approve Requests.
5. Open the Sent Back Workflow for Concurrent Employment.
6. Click the "Update" button and change the Hire Date to of the Concurrent Employment to be after the Hire Date of the First Employment.
7. Resubmit the Workflow and approve the Workflow again.

• 2654247 - Error while adding Concurrent Assignment 
• 2570451 - Application Error Occurred While Creating Concurrent Employment via Take Action (MSS )

Error occurred while saving the concurrent employment, The concurrent employment can only be entered for a date after the recruit date of the first employment, Concurrent Employment, Hire Date, Workflow , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-CON , Concurrent Employment , LOD-SF-EC-WFL , Workflows - Configuration, Tools, Objects & Rules , Problem