3754249 - 'Adjust Employees' Compensation to Tariff Changes' job failing with error - 1H2026

'Adjust Employees’ Compensation to Tariff Changes'/ 'Pay Scale Pay Increase Run' job was failing after 1H2026 release with error:

Full exception:com.successfactors.jobscheduler.ScheduledJobExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.List.iterator()" because "rules" is null

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

1. Navigate to ‘Adjust Employees’ Compensation to Tariff Changes’
2. Create New pay increase (NOTE: There is no issue now after correcting the rule)
3. Submit
4. Both Simulation and Update jobs failed

The job failure occurred because business rules were not loaded correctly during execution, resulting in a NullPointerException.

Engineering team is already investigating.

Workaround:

After re-saving the rule, the job was successfully completed.

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