Assigning deductions

You must assign the appropriate deduction to an employee for the deduction to be taken from employee pay.

These are the ways that you can assign a deduction to an employee:

Manually. See procedures below.
Through an employee garnishment. See Assigning United States employee garnishments for United States Employees, or Assigning Canada Employee Garnishments for Canada employees.
Through an attachment of earnings.
Through required deductions. See Assigning required deductions.
Through Benefits enrollment. See the Infor Benefits Administration User Guide.
Through TaxLocator. See Setting Up TaxLocator for employees.

Manual deductions such as charitable donations and employee loan deductions can be assigned through Employee Deduction (PR14.1), Deduction Speed Entry (PR15.1), or Employee Deduction Speed Entry (PR15.2).

Note: Before you assign the deductions, you must defined deductions on Deductions (PR05.1).

See Setting up deduction structure. Use this procedure to assign employee deductions. You can automatically add deductions to an employee record using required deduction codes.

Access Employee Deduction (PR14.1).
In the Balance Type field, define balance types as limit, descending, or ascending, if applicable.
In the Deduction Cycles field, for tax deductions only, select the T option (Ded not taken but taxable wages updated) if an employee is filing for exempt status from federal or state taxes.

Nine Deduction Cycles fields allow you to specify the cycles. Choosing different deduction cycles for the employee overrides deductions defaulting from Deduction (PR05.1).
In the End Date field, specify a stop date if you need to discontinue an employee deduction. Maintain benefit or garnishment deductions through the Benefit and Garnishment applications.

Note: Parameters defined for the deduction in Deduction (PR05.1) default if any of the following fields are left blank: Amount or Percent, Priority, Arrears, Deduction Cycles, Begin Date, End Date, Monthly Limit, and Payment Limit.

See Defining deduction codes.