Meal Allowances

There are two meal allowances, one for day workers and one for night workers. Because meal allowances may or may not be subject to contributions, PeopleSoft has defined four earnings.

Earning Description

PANIER J I

This daytime allowance is subject to contributions.

To trigger the day meal allowance, you must enter positive input for the earning PANIER J I. The unit of positive input is equal to the number of meal allowances to be paid.

Meal allowances are not subject to contributions if they are calculated using the legal meal allowance rate stored in the variable IND VR PR PANIER. If you want to pay meal allowances based on a value greater than the legal rate, you must specify the value to use by entering a supporting element override for the variable IND VR PANIER J. If the variable IND VR PANIER J is overridden by an amount over the legal rate, the portion over this rate is used as the rate for the earning PANIER J I.

Note: You can enter supporting element overrides on the Positive Input - Details page of the One Time (Positive Input) component (GP_PI_MNL_ERNDED).

PANIER J NI

This daytime allowance is not subject to contributions.

The earning PANIER J NI has as its unit the number of meals entered by positive input for the earning PANIER J I, and the rate is the statutory meal allowance rate stored in the variable IND VR PR PANIER.

PANIER N I

This night allowance is subject to contributions.

To trigger night meal allowances, you must enter positive input for the earning PANIER N I. The unit of positive input is equal to the number of meal allowances to be paid.

Meal allowances are not subject to contributions if they are calculated using the legal meal allowance rate stored in the variable IND VR PR PANIER. If you want to pay meal allowances based on a value greater than the legal rate, you must specify the value to use by entering a supporting element override for the variable IND VR PANIER N. If the variable IND VR PANIER N is overridden by an amount over the legal rate, the portion over this rate is used as the rate for the earning PANIER N NI.

Note: You can enter supporting element overrides on the Positive Input - Details page of the One Time (Positive Input) component (GP_PI_MNL_ERNDED).

PANIER N NI

This night allowance is not subject to contributions.

If the variable IND VR PANIER N is not overridden or the variable is overridden by an amount less than 1.5 times the legal rate, the night allowances is not be liable to contributions and is paid by the earning PANIER N NI.

Note:

For the meal allowances, you must enter a positive input for the earnings that are subject to contributions (PANIER J I and PANIER N I), but the process determines if these allowances are subject to contributions depending on the values of the variables IND VR PANIER J and IND VR PANIER N.

Here are two examples of how the PANIER J I and PANIER J NI earnings are calculated:

  • Example 1:

    • Legal Meal Allowance Rate= 2,85.

    • Positive Input for the earning PANIER J I.

    • Unit = 2,25.

    • Supporting element override for the variable IND VR PANIER J = 4,50.

    • In this case, the earning PANIER J I is equal to 2,25 x (4,50 − 2,85) = 3,71.

    • And the earning PANIER J NI is equal to 2,25 x 2,85 = 6,41.

  • Example 2:

    • Positive Input for the earning PANIER J I:

    • Unit = 2,25.

    • No supporting element override for the variable IND VR PANIER J.

    • In this case, the earning PANIER J I is equal to 0.

    • And the earning PANIER J NI is equal to 2,25 x 2,85 = 6,41.

Note:

If the variable IND VR PANIER J is overridden by an amount under the value of the legal rate, the allowance paid is calculated by PANIER J NI and the base is equal to the legal rate (not to the amount defined for the variable IND VR PANIER J).