Employee Category types are used to classify people and located in Setup > General for configuration, and assigned to employees in person > General. Customers using Dimensions use employee categories to associate pay rules.
For example, a Police Department could have Sworn personnel and Civilian personnel. For special events, such as a Parade, civilian personnel may participate for working opportunities. In this case the same special event position, but with different pay grades.
Employee Category is one of the attributes used to create tag references along with Work Code Category, and On-Call. Application version 7.0.1 contains task Dimensions Pay Rule Import to Employee Category, which as the name implies imports and associates Dimension pay rules to create an employee category in this application. Employee Category is available in the People Filter as of application version 7.2.
Dimension Integration Technical Detail: Disabled Employee Categories remain disabled unless imported by person. If a person is imported with an employee category via Dimensions that is disabled in this application the integration will enable that skill or certification.