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3635579 - Unable to Hire/Rehire an Employee to Certain Organizational Unit Due to Error "Selected organizational unit not valid on hire date"

Symptom

Error "Selected organizational unit not valid on hire date" when hiring/rehiring an employee to certain organizational unit.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Personnel Administration work center -> Regular Tasks view. 
  2. Select the country where the employee to be hired/rehired.
  3. Input/select the employee ID.
  4. Input/select the organizational unit ID that required to assign to the employee.
  5. Error: "Selected organizational unit not valid on hire date."

Cause

The hire/rehire date is before the valid from date of the organizational unit.

Resolution

Hiring/rehiring the employee to an organizational unit which valid from date is before the hire/rehire date of the employee is needed.

In case there is a need to assign the employee to the organizational unit which is not valid yet on the employee's hire/rehire date, firstly assign the employee to another valid organizational unit, then transfer the employee to the required organizational unit on the valid from date.

Keywords

Hire/Rehire employee, Org unit, Valid to date, Transfer employee , KBA , SRD-HR-PAD , Personnel Administration , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2505