Create Time Card Elements for Global Payroll Time Entries

Time card elements support hours-based and units-based quantities. When you create a time card element, you also create the related payroll elements, balances, formulas, and calculation components used by Global Payroll to pay workers.

Tip: If people report regular and straight time portions of overtime separately, create two elements, such as Overtime and Overtime Premium. If they report the portions together, you might use straight time instead of regular time, and create a separate element for the overtime premium.

1. Go to Setup and Maintenance > Workforce Deployment > Elements and Formulas > Elements.
2. Create the payroll element.
   1. On the Create Element dialog box, select the legislative data group, such as FR LDG, Hong Kong LDG, or US LDG.
   2. Select the primary classification, such as Regular Earnings or Earnings.
   3. When available and applicable, select the secondary classification.
   4. Select the Time Card category.
   5. Continue
3. Complete the basic information.
   1. Enter a descriptive name, such as Regular, Straight Time, Overtime, or Shift Pay.
   2. Enter the name that you want to display on reports containing this payroll element.
   3. Select the effective date January 1, 1951. The early date ensures that the element attributes are immediately available to use when configuring time entry layout components.
   4. Click Next.
4. Complete the additional details page.
   1. Select Hours or Other Units as the calculation units for reporting.

      Use units-based quantities to assign people a flat payment amount through associated rates. For example, you pay consultants a meal allowance according to the number of meals they take daily.

   2. Select the appropriate Work Units conversion rule. For the calculation used by each conversion rule, see Conversion Rule Options for Configuring Additional Details of Payroll Elements.
   3. Click Next.
5. Review the element configuration.
   1. Make sure that the basic information and additional details are correct.
   2. Create the element and automatically generate all the related elements, balances, formulas, and calculation components by clicking Submit.

   By default, Time Card category elements already have the appropriate value definition configurations required to support location overrides. You don't have to make any edits.

6. Configure element eligibility by completing these steps:
   1. On the Element Summary page, in the Elements Overview section, select Element Eligibility.
   2. Select Actions > Create Element Eligibility.
   3. In the Information section, enter an element eligibility name with a suffix that identifies the criteria. For example, for the regular element with open eligibility--no selected criteria--the name could be Regular Open.

      We recommend that you don't select any eligibility criteria and instead control eligibility with HCM groups and time processing profiles.

   4. Click Done.
7. Configure element eligibility for each of the related elements. They start with the same name as this element and have identifying suffixes. Suffixes include Earnings Calculator, Earnings Distributor, Earnings Results, Retro, and Retro Results.
   1. On the Manage Elements page, search for the element that you just created.
   2. Click the related element name.
   3. On the element summary page, complete these steps:
      1. In the Elements Overview section, select Element Eligibility.
      2. Select Actions > Create Element Eligibility.
      3. In the Information section, configure the same eligibility criteria as the original element.
      4. Submit your changes.
      5. Return to the Manage Elements page.