On behalf of Joan Stork, Rons Construction Service:
I have an employee who has opted out of one paygroup benefit, but when running the 5-1-7-31 report, it's pulling this calculation as if it's active for the employee. The report is looking at the paygroup benefits instead of the actual calculations active on employee payroll record.
Would like it to identify when employee opts out of a benefit.
by: tracy w. | over a year ago | Payroll
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The Fringe Paid In Cash rate of pay is not picking up the fringe offset amount in the payroll record causing the rate to be overstated. This error also occurs on the 5-1-11 Certified Payroll Form, Form WH-347, rendering the form useless. As a legally mandated government form it is imperative that Sage make this correct for if companies trust the rendered form without understanding or verifying it increases their likelihood of audit.
Per the DOL - this is how the report should be filled out. Not 100 Fringe.
Column 6 - Rate of Pay (Including Fringe Benefits): In the "straight time" box for each worker, list the actual hourly rate paid for straight time worked, plus cash paid in lieu of fringe benefits paid. When recording the straight time hourly rate, any cash paid in lieu of fringe benefits may be shown separately from the basic rate. For example, "$12.25/.40" would reflect a $12.25 base hourly rate plus $0.40 for fringe benefits. This is of assistance in correctly computing overtime. See "Fringe Benefits" below. When overtime is worked, show the overtime hourly rate paid plus any cash in lieu of fringe benefits paid in the "overtime" box for each worker; otherwise, you may skip this box. See "Fringe Benefits" below. Payment of not less than time and one-half the basic or regular rate paid is required for overtime under the Contract Work Hours Standard Act of 1962 if the prime contract exceeds $100,000. In addition to paying no less than the predetermined rate for the classification which an individual works, the contractor must pay amounts predetermined as fringe benefits in the wage decision made part of the contract to approved fringe benefit plans, funds or programs or shall pay as cash in lieu of fringe benefits. See "FRINGE BENEFITS" below.
Column 7 - Gross Amount Earned: Enter gross amount earned on this project. If part of a worker's weekly wage was earned on projects other than the project described on this payroll, enter in column 7 first the amount earned on the Federal or Federally assisted project and then the gross amount earned during the week on all projects, thus "$163.00/$420.00" would reflect the earnings of a worker who earned $163.00 on a Federally assisted construction project during a week in which $420.00 was earned on all work.
We are also having issues with Aatrix pulling benefit rate information directly from the paygroup table instead of the actual payroll records. This causes a major issue when anyone must re-run a report after there have been changes to the paygroup table (pre-determined increases etc). When an employer must do a supplement payment, they must then re-submit the CP reports. The gross pay, net pay, deductions and taxes are all pulling from the payroll record, but not anything to do with the prevailing wage cash benefits or the employer benefits paid on that specific check.
We need Aatrix to ONLY pull data from the payroll records so that the info is accurate for that time frame.