Symptom
When you terminate an employee with employee ID " XXX"(with leading space) and Rehire an employee with employee ID "XXX"(without leading space) system reports an error "Work agreement ID already exists; unique ID required" .
(Here XXX is an Employee ID)
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Personnel Administration work center.
- Select Regular Tasks view.
- Select Terminate Relationship with Employee.
- Search the employee you want to terminate.
- Select Last Working Day for the employee.
- Select the Save and Close button to save the changes
- Go to Personnel Administration work center - Regular Tasks view
- Click Rehire Employee
Cause
- You have configured manual number range for employee ID in the system
- While hiring the employees, you have added a leading space for the employee ID
Resolution
You need to terminate the current employee with employee ID " XXX"(with leading space) and Rehire the employee with new Employee ID in a different country
Keywords
Work agreement ID already exists; unique ID required , , KBA , work agreement id already exists , unique id required , SRD-HR-PAD , Personnel Administration , Problem
Product
SAP Business ByDesign all versions