Calculating Overtime for Employee Assignments
If you need to calculate overtime differently for different assignment records, you can use the Timecard Automation module to perform the calculations. First, you must set up an overtime rule and enter that rule in UDC 07/OR before you create employee assignments. You then enter the overtime rule on each assignment. After you create timecard templates, you can process the timecards through the Timecard Automation module to calculate the correct overtime amounts for the timecards. When you process the overtime rule, you must enter the overtime rule code in the data selection criteria to ensure that only the timecards that are associated with the assignment records which use that overtime rule are processed.
Alternatively, you can create an employee group, using the overtime rule as the data selection criterion when you create the group. After the employee group exists, you apply a specific overtime rule to the group. For example, assume that the company pays union employees at an overtime rate that is different from nonunion employees. To satisfy this distinction, you can create and assign overtime rule code 555 to union employee assignments. You then create an employee group, based on overtime rule code 555, and apply the overtime rule to this group.
Nonunion employees might receive a different overtime rate, so you apply a different overtime rule to those employees by including them in a separate group with its own overtime rule. Although this UDC is specific to Employee Assignment, you can use this feature to separate employees or employee groups for overtime processing when you create employee assignments.
If you use the employee group method to calculate overtime rules for timecards that are created using the Employee Assignment module, be aware that the system calculates all of the timecards for a single employee using the same overtime rule. For example, if an employee is included in an employee group that is associated with overtime rule 555, all of the timecards for that employee are processed using overtime rule 555.
Therefore, if you want some of the employee's timecards to be processed using overtime rule 555,and other timecards to be processed using overtime rule 777, you cannot use the employee group method to process overtime rules.