Payroll February 2022

This section contains enhancements in Infor HR Talent.

Print Hourly Rate field added to payment schedules

The Print Hourly Rate field has been added to payment schedules. This field allows users to set the value by payment schedule to be used when the Print Payments action is run. If a user populates the Print Hourly Rate field on either the Print Payments action or the Off Cycle Print Payments action, the action uses the parameter value and ignores the payment schedule value.

The Print Payments action has been enhanced to set the Print Hourly Rate field to be blank by default. The field does not print an hourly rate if it is left blank or set to No. When the field is set to No and a payment schedule value has been specified, no hourly rate is used.

JT-1254258

New Calculate Overtime Employee action

A new Calculate Overtime Employee overtime action is available that allows users to recalculate the overtime for unlocked employee payroll cycle records that are overtime eligible and have an overtime run flag status of Error. The new Calculate Overtime Employee action has been added in Action Configuration.

JT-1429322

Enhancements for Year End Employee Configurable fields, EFW2, and W-2 Reporting logic

The Year End Employee Configurable fields, EFW2 and W-2 Reporting logic were enhanced to comply with the published changes made by the Government of Puerto Rico for Tax Year 2021. These changes have been made:
  1. Created a new file creation setup file "YearEnd US Territory W2 PR as of 2021." A new column was added for the Employer Email address. To load new delivered content, navigate toPayroll Administrator > Setup > Payroll Delivered Content and run the Load action for the description "Year End".
  2. Added validations in the Puerto Rico Box F Others field located at Employee Configurable Fields > Employee Year End Parameters > Puerto Rico Box F. Only these options can be selected and reported starting Payroll Year 2021:
    1. Services Outside The Employer Trade
    2. Compensation Due To Dismissal
    3. Other
    The other options on the select list can only be used and reported for payroll years prior to 2021.
  3. The EFW2 and W-2 reporting logic were enhanced to display a value of "2" in the output files if the user selects Compensation Due To Dismissal in the Box F Others field in the Employee Year End Parameters when the report is run starting payroll year 2021.
  4. The EFW2 and W-2 reporting logic were enhanced to display a value of "3" in the output files if the user selects Other in the Box F Others field in the Employee Year End Parameters when the report is run starting payroll year 2021.
  5. The EFW2 reporting logic was enhanced to display the Employer Contact Phone Number (positions 249-263) and Employer Contact Email (positions 279-318) in the Employer (RE) Record. The value used comes from the Year End Configurable Fields > Employer Information > Contact Phone Number and Year End Configurable Fields > Employer Information > Email. If the Year End Configurable Fields Contact Phone and Email are not specified, the information from the Generate EFW2 file action parameter is displayed.

JT-1633362

Close Payroll action performance improvements

The performance of the Close Payroll action has been improved by introducing multi-threading to additional parts of the action that process data.

JT-1653344

New Mass Finalize Gross Up Payment action

A new Mass Finalize Gross Up Payment action is now available. Users can choose from different parameters on the action to control which calculated Gross Ups are finalized into Manual Payments. Users can select the bank code, up to six payment schedules, a range of employees, and a check date range for the mass finalize action. They can also specify a starting check number and starting receipt number, and choose whether or not to delete prior errors.

JT-1671827

Tax Type 204 rescinded by BSI

Tax Type 204 (Employer Employee Retention Credit) has been rescinded by BSI. The TaxCategoryDC Delivered Content has a description update to clarify that it has been rescinded. The delivered content process will not change an existing tax category description if it is in use. An update to the tax category description can be done manually through Setup > Deduction Structure > Tax Categories. For the existing deduction code tied to this tax category, use the Update action to add an end date to the deduction code, followed by using the Update Employee Deductions action to populate the end date on employee deduction records.

JT-1684461