How To Fix 5O658 - Specify voluntary severance pay when specifying no. of employment years

5O658 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 5O - Notifications in the Master Data Area (Austria)

• Message number: 658

• Message text: Specify voluntary severance pay when specifying no. of employment years

What causes this issue?

You have specified the number of employment years for the employee.
However, you have not entered a date in the <ZH>Vol. sev. pay</> field
or in the <ZH>SP compensation for permanent layoff</> field.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

Specify the amount of the voluntary severance pay or the special
payment as compensation for a permanent layoff.

Procedure for System Administrators

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

5O658 - Details

• The SAP error message 5O658 typically occurs in the context of payroll processing, particularly when dealing with voluntary severance pay calculations. This error indicates that the system requires you to specify the amount of voluntary severance pay when you are entering the number of years of employment for an employee.
  
  Cause:
  The error arises when:
  
  You are trying to process a severance payment for an employee but have not provided the necessary details regarding the voluntary severance pay.
  The system expects a value for voluntary severance pay based on the number of years the employee has worked, but this value is missing or not specified.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Employee Data: Ensure that the employee's data is complete and that the number of years of employment is correctly entered in the system.
  
  
  Specify Voluntary Severance Pay:
  
  Navigate to the relevant infotype (usually IT 0015 for Basic Pay or IT 0008 for