Building rules

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? For example, employees might be grouped 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. Create calculation groups
2. Assign employees to calculation groups
3. Assign rules to calculation groups
4. Define condition sets and parameters for each rule
5. Test the rule through the Daily or Weekly Timesheet