As of 17.10 release, the latest documentation for importing Workforce data seems to be more inline with the new import data load templates names (now downloadable from the Application in Config starting with 17.10 release). See: Importing Workforce Data.
The new templates are now grouped into three different folders, based on the three different options for configuring the level of workforce data. The templates for an Employee and Job configuration are as follows:
Based on the template, EmployeeOtherCompensationDataLoad_Plan.csv, it would seem that you can directly load other compensation (Additional Earnings, Benefits, and Taxes) for existing employees.
This does indeed work. After running this template,I do see my Other earnings in workforce. However, I also have defaults configured for Other earnings in workforce. Default are required
to support default Other compensation for the New Hire business process. However, when I ran the Synchronize Definitions business rule on these employees, the Other Earnings lines which I loaded are replaced by
the defaults configured in Workforce. This raises a few questions: Should you never run Synchronize Definitions on existing employees if you're loading Other Earnings?. It sure seems like this is
true, but there is no mention of this fact in the documentation. Does Synchronize Definitions need to be tweaked to NOT OVERWRITE Other earnings that are directly loaded?
Does Synchronize Defaults need to be tweaked to only merge default for other earnings that apply to the Job/Union Code but haven't been directly loaded? Is loading Other compensation for existing
employees really supported? If anyone else has tried this, I'm curious if you're seen the same behavior in Workforce.