Adding employee supplemental assignments

Aside from having the base assignment, employees can be contracted for additional assignments. These can be extracurricular activities such as coaching and directing school plays, that provide them the extra pay. These are maintained in the Employee Supplemental Assignment (CM15.1). Unlike the base assignments, the supplemental assignments do not report the units and do not affect the contract amount and balances (CM13.1). Also, the position used for a supplemental assignment doesn’t have to be an employee’s position.

Follow these steps to add supplemental assignments:

  1. Access the Employee Supplemental Assignment (CM15.1).
  2. Specify this information:
    Company

    Select a company.

    Contract Year

    Specify the contract year.

    Employee

    Select an employee number.

    Contract Nbr

    Specify the existing employee contract number.

    Contract Dates

    These are display-only fields. These are the contract start date and contract end date as defined in Employee Contract (CM13.1).

    Work Schedule

    This is a display-only field. This is the work schedule tied to the employee contract.

    FC

    Specify or select the action that you want to perform on this line of record.

    Position

    Select a position to associate with the supplemental assignment.

    Note: If the Annual Amount or Pay Cycle Amount option is selected in the Calc Type field, then you can select any position active within the assignment dates. If the Daily Rate option is selected in the Calc Type field, then the position indicated must be an existing employee’s position on Multiple Positions and Jobs (PA13.1) so that Contract Time Record Generation (CM130) can find the position’s current rate of pay to determine the pay period amount.
    Pay Code

    Assign the pay code. Contract Time Record Generation (CM130) uses this value in creating the time record for the contract. The pay code must not be tied to the contract or docking pay classes identified in the Contract Rule (CM00.1).

    Calc Type

    Select the calculation type that would determine the pay cycle amount of the supplemental assignment.

    Amount or Days

    The field value is evaluated based on the selected assignment Calc type. For Calc type 1, this refers to the supplemental assignment Full Amount. For Calc type 2, this refers to the pay cycle amount, while for Calc type 3, this refers to the number of days for the entire supplemental assignment.

    Start Date

    Specify the start date. The supplemental assignment is eligible for pay after this date.

    End Date

    Specify the end date. The supplemental assignment is eligible for pay before this date.

    Closed Date

    This field can be automatically updated by CM197 with the Pay Cycle end date of the final time record when the employee’s supplemental full amount was paid out or can be manually assigned by user with status set to 9 (Closed).

    Number of Pay Cycles

    This determines the number of assignment payouts. This defaults to the CM03 remaining pay cycle with pay cycle date range that includes the Supplemental assignment Start Date.

  3. Click the Main tab to change the Assignment status.
    Segment Number

    This is a display-only field. This is a unique system-assigned number that identifies every assignment record under the contract.

    Status

    Select the supplemental assignment status. Contract Time Record Generation (CM130) uses this value in creating the time record for the contract assignment.

    • Select Closed to indicate that the assignment was paid out or terminated.

    • Select Void to inactivate a segment that has been set up in error. This is used instead of deleting an assignment where employee already had a payout.

    Full Amount

    This is a display-only field that refers to the annual amount of the supplemental assignment. This is computed as the pay cycle amount multiplied by the number of pay cycles.

    Pay Cycle Amount

    This is a display-only field that refers to the paid per cycle amount that is computed as Assignment Full Amount divided by the Number of Pay Cycles.

  4. Optionally, you can click User Fields to access Employee Contract User Fields (CM16.1) to create user defined fields. See Employee contract user fields.
  5. Define the information on the Employee tab:
    Process Level

    Select the distribution process level of the supplemental assignment for the time record generation. The default setting is the employee’s home process level but can be overridden in CM15.1.

    Department

    Select the distribution department for the supplemental assignment time record. The default setting is the employee’s home department but can be overridden in CM15.1.

    FTE

    Specify the FTE (full time equivalent). This is required for supplemental assignments with Calc Type 1 or 2. This value will be used for the account distribution (CM17.1) of the pay cycle amount.

    Position Level

    Select the Contract Year of the Work Schedule.

    Benefit Salary

    Flag which Benefit Salary or Salaries will include the supplemental full amount for the calculation of benefit contribution or coverage, or both. The default setting is the Employee Contract (CM13.1) but can be overridden in CM15.1.

  6. Define the time record information on the Time Record tab. Specify this information:
    Reserve Pay code

    Define a pay code to use for the creation of the supplemental assignment time record. CM130 checks for this field, and if a valid pay code is specified, it calculates for the Reserve amount.

    This is applicable only for Calc Type = 1 (Annual Amount) or 2 (Pay Cycle). Reserve wages is computed as the Pay Cycle Amount less the Earned wages. To come up with the Earned Wages, the hourly rate should be identified first. Although CM130 does not report the supplemental assignment units, Hourly rate is derived from the CM15 Annual Amount divided by the assignment units (referring to the actual hours within the assignment dates).

    Payout Flag

    Specify or select whether remaining balance must be paid in full, reserves only, or the summer deferral amount should be paid the next time CM130 is run.

    The default setting is the CM13.1 (Employee Contract) Contract Payout Flag.

    Rollover

    Select whether the supplemental assignment will be rolled over to the next contract year using Employee Contract Mass Add (CM101). This flag's default setting is 1 (No) for voided assignments.

    Check Group

    This is used to group the contract time record on one payment for the employee.

    • If you specify a numeric value, then the corresponding deduction cycle is applied to the pay associated with that check group.

    • If you specify an alpha value, then the application takes the deductions based on the cycle defined in Earnings and Deductions Calculation (PR140).

    • Specify an asterisk * if you want the system to assign the alpha check groups when processing time records with multiple pay cycles.

    Process Group

    Process groups let you tax pay codes separately, but they also allow you to combine earnings in a single payment.

    • If you specify a numeric value, then the corresponding deduction cycle is applied to the pay associated with that process group. In this case, the application can take miscellaneous deductions more than once per payment.

    • If you specify an alpha value, then the application only takes miscellaneous deductions once per payment.

    • Specify an asterisk * if you want the system to assign the alpha process groups when processing time records with multiple pay cycles.

    Tax Frequency Override

    Select the frequency with which you want to override normal taxation.

    Pay Cycle

    Select the pay cycles. Contract Time Record Generation (CM130) uses this value to determine when time records are generated for the supplemental assignments.

    Balances tab

    The Balance tab has displa- only fields. This contains all the year-to-date paid wages and balances of the supplemental assignment.

    For supplemental assignments with Calc Type 1 (Annual Amount) and 2 (Pay Cycle Amount), Close Contract (CM197) updates the YTD Paid Wages, Remaining Wage Balance, and Reserve Wage Balance if the assignment computes for the reserve pay.

    For Calc type 3 (Daily Rate), Close Contract (CM197) only updates the YTD Paid Wages.