Large structured organisations, such as local government offices, tend to have separate conditions of employment to suit certain groups of staff. For example, administrative and clerical staff might have different holiday and sick pay entitlements to manual workers. The service conditions facility on the system provides you with the mechanism to pull together the appropriate rules that apply to a particular group of employees.

Service conditions are usually attached to a job, but can also be attached directly to an employee. If attached to a job, this is subsequently attached to a post. All employees assigned to that post then automatically inherit the associated conditions of employment.

The following options are available when setting up a set of service conditions: