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Country Packs (HCM)
This page documents the shipped Country Pack framework — 44 country packs (India, USA, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, and 38 more), all built on the exact same real, shared structure. Not for plugin developers.
Who this is for: HR/payroll admins operating in a specific country who need that country's real statutory rates, tax slabs, and leave/labor rules reflected in HCM.
How Country Packs work
A Country Pack is a reference-data library for one country — it doesn't add new screens with new behavior; it adds real statutory rows that the rest of HCM (Payroll, Leave, Compliance) reads from.
Activating a pack: go to HR Settings → Country Configuration, find the country, and Activate it — once active, its rules become visible and usable across the rest of HCM. Only packs your tenant has actually installed show up there; this isn't a general "pick any country in the world" list.
What every pack actually contains
The same set of statutory-rule screens repeats, country by country — the field names below are real (taken directly from India's own pack, the most complete one, and consistent across every other pack that ships the same screen type):
- PF/Provident Fund Rules (where applicable) — Scheme Code, Employee Rate %, Employer Rate %, Wage Ceiling, and an Effective From/To date range — so a rate change over time is tracked, not overwritten.
- ESI/Social Security Rules — Employee Rate %, Employer Rate %, Wage Threshold, Effective From/To.
- Professional/Regional Tax Rules — State/Region, Salary Band Min/Max, Monthly Tax Amount, Effective From/To (for countries with sub-national tax variation).
- Tax Slabs — real tax regime and bracket definitions (Tax Year, Standard Deduction, ordered slabs), read directly by Tax Management in Payroll — not a separate, disconnected copy.
- Gratuity/Bonus Rules — Rule Type, Formula Description, Rate or Formula, Minimum Service Years, a Cap Amount, Effective From/To.
- Leave Rules — Leave Type, Eligibility Condition, Entitlement Days, Accrual Method, Carry Forward Rule, Effective From/To — the statutory minimums this country requires, which Leave Policies can be built against.
- Labor Law Rules — State/Region, Rule Code/Name, Category, Description, Effective From/To — real regulatory requirements, browsable and filterable, feeding Statutory Rules & Labor Law.
- Termination Notice / Retrenchment Rules and Garnishment / Wage Attachment Rules — statutory requirements around ending employment and court-ordered salary deductions, where applicable.
- Working Calendar Rules, Statutory Form Definitions, Statutory Returns, Employee Document Types, and Payroll Integration Definitions — supporting reference data each pack ships so the rest of HCM knows what forms, documents, and filings apply in that country.
Every rule row carries Source Year and an Effective From/To date range — this is real, versioned reference data, not a static snapshot; a rate change is added as a new row with its own effective dates, never overwriting history.
Why this page doesn't list each country separately
Every one of the 44 packs (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, UK, USA, Vietnam, and more) ships this exact same screen structure — only the actual rates, thresholds, and rules inside them differ, country by country. Writing 44 nearly-identical pages, each just restating this same structure with a different country name, wouldn't tell you anything this page hasn't already — the real content that matters is the actual current rates and rules, which belong in your own tenant's live data (via each pack's own screens once activated), not frozen into a documentation page that would go stale the moment a real rate changes.
Known gaps
- Not every pack ships every screen — a country with no PF-equivalent system, for example, simply won't have a PF Rules screen. Which screens exist for your country is determined by what's actually relevant there.
- These are reference-data screens, not an editor for your own statutory positions — the shipped rules reflect the pack's own published rates; if your company needs a genuinely custom variation, check with your implementation team rather than editing pack data directly.