Setting Up Workers' Compensation Insurance-Basis Tables

Access the Workers Compensation Insurance Basis Table Revisions form.

Insured Pay Table No. (insured pay table number)

Enter the code that identifies a table of pay, deduction, and benefit types that define the basis for various payroll calculations. These tables are used in several processes, such as defining insured pay types for workers compensation and identifying pay types to be included in automatic timecard generation.

Step progression processing uses valid pay types from the Workers Compensation Table. You can add a code to the UDC list (07/IP), and then use that code to define a range of pay types in the Workers Compensation Table (for example, STP for Step Progression). The Step Progression table uses the range of defined pay types to determine when an employee has met the step progression requirements and automatically moves to the next step. You must set up a step progression pay table if you are using the Hourly method for step progression processing. If you are using the Pieces method, you might want to set up pay types for individual pieces, and then enter the pieces pay types in the pay table. It is not necessary to set up a pay table if you are using the Days method.

Exclude Premiums

Enter the code that indicates whether the premium portion of overtime pay should be excluded from the calculation. For workers compensation rates, this field relates to only those pay types that are defined in the Workers-Compensation Insurance-Basis Table. For U.S. unemployment-insurance rates, this field relates to all pay types that are defined as taxable. For Canadian employment-insurance rates, this field should be set to No because premium pay such as overtime is not excluded from employment insurance in Canada.

For pay tables that are used for step progression processing, this field should be set to No.