Selecting Hours for Holiday Earnings
The system detects when a designated holiday occurs in a pay period. Designate days as holidays on the Holiday Schedule page, which you access by selecting When a holiday occurs in a pay period, the system populates the HOLIDAY HRS system element with the hours entered for that holiday on the holiday schedule.
Because a payee might not have been scheduled to work the holiday schedule hours, you can direct the system to pay different hours from those on the holiday schedule.
During normal payroll processing, when the system resolves the PUB (public holidays) earnings element, it determines the number of hours to pay each employee.
The PUB calculation rule is Unit × Rate, where:
Unit = Formula ERN FM PUB UNIT
Rate = System element HOURLY RATE
The ERN FM PUB UNIT formula uses proration element ERN PO PUB HRS for which the numerator is ERN CT PUB HOURS and the denominator is 1.
The count formula for ERN CT PUB HOURS is ERN FM HOLIDAY HOURS. This formula checks each day in the period for a HOLIDAY HOURS value and if it finds one, determines whether the variable ERN VR SCHED TYPE is set to HOL, WRK, or ALT.
For HOL, the formula returns the holiday hours from the holiday schedule.
For WRK, the formula returns half the employee's scheduled hours if the holiday type on the holiday schedule is Half, or all of the employee's scheduled hours if the holiday type is Standard.
The result is the same for ALT, except the formula returns the hours for the payee's alternate work schedule. If there is no alternate schedule, it returns either half or all scheduled hours.
Note: You can designate any defined schedule as the alternate schedule on the pay group table. And at the employee level, you can assign a schedule as an alternate and it can be the pay group alternate schedule or any other of your defined schedules. Select
Whatever the value of the variable ERN VR SCHED TYPE, the count formula returns the hours to be passed by the count to the numerator of the proration rule and the proration rule passes the count value to the formula ERN FM PUB UNIT, which is the unit for the PUB calculation rule Unit × Rate.
Note: Because the count numerator (the number or hours to pay) is divided by denominator 1, no proration occurs. The count result is passed to the PUB earnings element's unit formula through the proration element because counts cannot be used directly in formulas.