If an employee gets paid biweekly, the software automatically assumes they worked two weeks and puts that on unemployment taxes. However, if another check is generated outside the normal run because overtime or a bonus was missed, it adds in ANOTHER two weeks. At the end of the quarter, some employees are showing for unemployment purposes that they worked 18 weeks or more, which is physically impossible.

There should be an option on the Calculate Payroll screen to override the weeks worked during the calculate process so that it is not overstated at quarter end reporting, or there should be an option on the taxes tab of a timecard to override the weeks worked without interfering with any calculation of the tax (all but three states have only employer paid unemployment, which cannot be edited anyway on the timecard, but the three states that have employees also paying into unemployment could be edited if it didn't set the withholding to zero automatically).

by: Paralea B. | over a year ago | Payroll