Within Location Configuration, you can modify and assign various time-sensitive attributes to be enforced at specified locations. This feature lets you assign laws and rules that apply to specific locations for a certain time period. This helps organize which locations are governed by local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
For example, a pay period calendar can be configured for the year 2008 and established on a biweekly cycle. However, days bleed over from 2007 and into 2009; the last few days of 2007 show up on the first pay cycle of 2008 and the last few days of 2008 overlap into 2009. Therefore, when the par period calendar expires, another one will need to be established.
A child labor law is another example of a time-sensitive attribute in that, if an employee is bound by a child labor law, eventually that employee will reach an age where the law is no longer applicable. If a child labor law only affects individuals aged 15 through 17, when the employee turns 18, the law no longer applies. In Location Configuration, you have the ability to determine which locations will be affected by which laws.
Other time-sensitive attributes include labor pay rules and wage and tip laws. All of the attributes on this page are configured elsewhere in Labor Management.
You can only have one labor pay rule, pay period calendar, and wage and tip law per location. But you can have more than one child labor law per location.
Parent topic: Payroll Preprocessing Administration