Building rules

This section provides information on how to build rules and apply them to the appropriate groups of employees. Before you begin to build pay rules, you must answer these questions:

  • Which groups of employees have the same set of business rules applied to them? Two examples of such grouping is by state or by union group.
  • What rules are applied to describe employee pay policies?
  • What are the sets of conditions that determine when specific rule parameters are used? For example, what are specific situations in which an employee qualifies for any variety of overtime?
  • What values of the rule parameters are used to determine the specific behavior of a rule? For example, which time designations “count” toward overtime and which do not?

The process of building pay rules is accomplished in these steps:

  1. Creating calculation groups
  2. Assigning employees to calculation groups
  3. Assigning rules to calculation groups
  4. Defining condition sets and parameters for each rule
  5. Testing the rule through the Daily or Weekly Timesheet

Relationships exist between employees, calculation groups, conditions, and rules. Every group of employees who have the same pay rules applied to them are grouped in calculation groups. Each calculation group is assigned multiple rules, which together describe the company’s policies. Each rule has condition sets, each with associated rule parameters. The condition sets describe the different circumstances when the rule applies. The rule parameters that are associated with each condition set describe how the rule impacts the employees when all the conditions in the condition set are true.