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.
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Payroll customers must use balances.
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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.
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Start the Balance Definitions task.
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Select your legislative data group (LDG), and search for ACA.
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Select ACA Eligible Employee Hours in the search results.
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Click Balance Feeds.
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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.
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Use the Elements task to define Information elements for each earning type.
Depending on your organization, this can include:
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Regular pay
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Overtime pay
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Jury duty
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Vacation
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Identify the elements as nonrecurring.
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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.
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Create an Hours element input value of with these values.
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Unit of Measure
Hours in decimal format, 3 places
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Displayed
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Allow User Entry
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Feed the predefined ACA Employee Eligible Hours balance using the Hours input value from all qualifying Hours Worked elements.