Benefits in the People Feature

To assign access to the benefits administration functions that are part of the People feature, select the associated checkboxes under Application Container.

See "Edit Employee Benefit Records" in the Benefits Administration Guide.

Application Container

To assign access to the benefits administration functions that are part of the People feature, select Application Container and the subfeatures described next.

Application Container Subfeatures

People

Enables the People feature, which provides a centralized access point for data about your employees, such as their status, contact information, and benefits elections. You can open this feature by clicking the People icon in the toolbar.

Important: To use this feature, you must also enable (at minimum) the People List and Employee Profile subfeatures, which are described below.

• Employee Profile: This feature must be enabled so that users can access the tab menu in Employee Profile:
  • Benefits: Enables the Benefits section of the screens list. You must enable this feature if you are enabling any of its subfeatures, which are described below.
    • Benefit Elections: Enables the Benefit Elections screen, where you can view, add, edit, end, and delete employees’ benefit elections.
    • Benefit Enrollments: Enables the Benefit Enrollments screen, where you can view, add, and edit employees’ enrollments. The Benefit Enrollments screen of the employee profile shows all enrollments to which an employee is currently assigned, along with the status of the enrollment.
    • Benefit History: Enables the Benefit History screen, where you can view and print the same history of benefit elections that employees have access to in Benefits > History.
    • Benefit Properties: Enables the Benefit Properties screen, where you can view, add, and edit employees’ benefit properties. The Benefit Properties screen of the Employee Profile shows the properties that employees are associated with, such as certificate numbers or benefit compensation.
    • Benefit Recalculation Results: Enables the Benefit Recalculation Results screen, where you can view, approve, unapprove, commit, or discard employees’ two-step recalculation transactions individually.
    • COBRA (US only): Enables the COBRA screen, where you can manage the loss of coverage events, or COBRA events, for individual employees and their covered dependents in accordance with the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA).
    • Dependents and Beneficiaries: Enables the Dependents and Beneficiaries screen, where you can view, add, and edit an employee’s dependent and beneficiary records. Enable the necessary subfeatures to show the corresponding sections of the tab.
    • Health and Wellness: Enables the Health and Wellness screen, where you can view, add, and edit employees’ historic health and wellness records.
    • Spouse Coverage Verification: Enables the Spouse Coverage Verification screen, where you can view, add, and edit historic coverage verification records for employees' spouses.
• People List: This feature must be enabled so that users can view employees in Employee Profile.
  • Include Employees with No Work Assignments: When enabled, Dayforce includes employees with no work assignments in returned results of Global Search and the People List.