Define Balance Feeds for Affordable Care Act Employee Eligible Hours

When configuring your balances for Affordable Care Act eligible hours calculation, the steps you take depend on your license type.

• Payroll customers must use balances.

• HR-Only customers must use element entry.

Neither solution works for both.

What to do if you're a Cloud Payroll customer

Define feeds for the ACA Eligible Employee Hours balance.

1. Start the Balance Definitions task.

2. Select your legislative data group (LDG), and search for ACA.

3. Select ACA Eligible Employee Hours in the search results.

4. Click Balance Feeds.

5. Feed this balance to all qualifying Hours Worked elements.

   Select their Hours input value.

   Note: The predefined ACA Eligible Employee Hours balance tracks values up to three decimal places, so the feeds you define must be three decimal places.

What to do if you're not a Cloud Payroll customer

You must define Information elements to track the hours worked for variable-hour employees.

1. Use the Elements task to define Information elements for each earning type.

   Depending on your organization, this can include:

   • Regular pay

   • Overtime pay

   • Jury duty

   • Vacation

2. Identify the elements as nonrecurring.

3. Add these elements with the eligible hours for the measurement period to element entry.

   Be sure the element end date is within the measurement period start and end dates.

4. Create an Hours element input value of with these values.

   • Unit of Measure

     Hours in decimal format, 3 places

   • Displayed

   • Allow User Entry

5. Feed the predefined ACA Employee Eligible Hours balance using the Hours input value from all qualifying Hours Worked elements.