18 Enter Daily Labor

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18.1 Entering Daily Labor

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From Time Accounting System (G05), choose Time Entry

From Time Entry (G0512), choose Daily Labor

You can use several methods to manually enter timecards. For employees who must maintain a daily record of their time, you can enter timecards by day of the week. Using this method of time entry, you can divide by day of the week those hours that use the same pay type, business unit, and rate for each employee.

When you enter timecards by day, the system supplies default pay and job information, which you can override if necessary.

You can use the Import/Export function in this program. See the JD Edwards World Technical Tools Guide for more information.

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To enter daily labor

On Daily Labor

Figure 18-1 Daily Labor screen

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Description of "Figure 18-1 Daily Labor screen"

  1. Complete the following fields:

    • Batch

    • Job Location

    • Week Start Date

    • Employee

    • Cost Code

    • Pay Type

    • Hours (by day)

  2. Complete the following optional fields:

    • Superintendent

    • General Foreman

    • Foreman

    • Work Area

    • Shift

  3. Access the detail area (F4).

  4. To override the system-supplied information, complete the following fields:

    • Job Worked

    • Job Type

    • Job Step

    • Tax Area

    • Object Worked

    • Home Business Unit

    • Home Company

    • Record Type

    You can use Toggle Display Format (F14) to change the display of the fields in the detail area (fold). If you set up Enhanced Subledger Accounting, you can view and change these values in the detail area. See Work with Enhanced Subledger Accounting in the JD Edwards World General Accounting I Guidefor more information.

Field Explanation
Week Start Date The date used as the actual work date or pay period ending date.

Form-specific information

The date you enter in this field must be a valid date for the day specified in the processing options as the beginning day of the week. For example, if the week is set to begin on Mondays, you can enter 02/06/17 because it is an actual Monday date. You cannot enter 02/11/17 because that date is a Saturday.

18.1.1 What You Should Know About

Topic Description
Adding a timecard entry to an existing batch Each line on Daily Labor represents a timecard entry. To add a new entry to an existing batch, enter the timecard information and use the Change action. Do not choose to add the entry.

If you use the Add action, the system duplicates the existing timecard information and adds the duplicated information along with the new information to the existing batch.
Category codes Daily Labor uses category codes one through four. You name and define these category codes when you set up your Time Accounting system.
Reviewing timecards You can use Daily Labor to review only those timecards that have been entered using this program. You cannot use this program to review timecards entered in other time entry programs.
Displaying batch statistics When you choose the Batch Statistics function, the system displays the total number of labor records, employee records, hours, and dollars for the batch. The system updates the information each time you make changes to the time entry batch. A processing option controls whether you can display batch statistics.
Batch numbers Batch numbers must be unique. You can set up the processing options to allow the system to generate a batch number from next numbers. If the processing option is set correctly, when you choose the New Batch function the system generates a batch number that you can enter in the Batch Number field. Alternatively, you can enter your own unique batch number.

18.1.2 Processing Options

See Section 47.4, "Daily Labor (P061191)."