Creating New Earnings that Include Shift Differentials

When creating new unit-based earnings that impact or are impacted by shift differentials, you can:

• Add the units (hours) processed for the new earnings to the accumulator SHIFT DIFF UNIT. This accumulator functions as the Unit component in the calculation rule of the delivered SHIFT - R and SHIFT PCT earnings. SHIFT - R and SHIFT PCT are resolved only if units from other earnings are included in the SHIFT DIFF UNIT accumulator.

  Note:

  The generation control element ERN GC SHIFT EXC prevents resolution of these earnings if the SHIFT DIFF UNIT accumulator contains no units. This element looks at the accumulator and the values of the shift group and shift ID. If the value of SHIFT DIFF UNIT is greater than 0 and the payee is in a shift group and has a shift ID, the system processes the earnings.

  Note:

  As delivered, only units from WAGES and REGULAR are included in SHIFT DIFF UNIT.

• Use the formula ERN FM OVT RATE to calculate the shift differential directly in the Rate component of the earnings' calculation rule. Use OVT 1.5, OVT 2.0, or PREMIUM as models for the new elements.

  ERN FM OVT RATE is defined in the following way:

  ERN BR SHIFT DIFF   >>  GP TEMP001 NUM
  If ERN VR SHIFT GRP <> '' Then
      If ERN VR SHIFT D PCT <> 0 Then
          HOURLY RT * ( 1 + ERN VR SHIFT D PCT / 100 )   >>  ERN FM OVT RATE
      Else
          HOURLY RT + ERN BR SHIFT DIFF   >>  ERN FM OVT RATE
      Endif
  Else
      HOURLY RT   >>  ERN FM OVT RATE
  Endif

  This formula defines the rate in one of three ways:

  1. As the system element HOURLY RT × (1 + ERN VR SHIFT D PCT ÷ 100) if the payee is associated with a shift group and the bracket ERN BR SHIFT DIFF returns a shift percent that is not zero.

  2. As the system element HOURLY RT + ERN BR SHIFT DIFF if the percent returned by the bracket is zero.

  3. If neither a nor b is true, the rate used is the system element HOURLY RT.