Awarding Supplemental Earnings to Employees
If your company has enabled the Supplemental Earnings feature, you can create new supplemental earnings records to award supplemental earnings to employees you supervise.
Note: Most supplemental earnings (such as mileage or tips) will be recorded by your employees and you will only have to approve them. Some forms of supplemental earnings, such as bonuses, can only be entered by supervisors.
To award supplemental earnings, such as a bonus, to an employee:
From the Home page, click the Supplemental Earnings link to open the Supplemental Earnings page.
Tip: A Supplemental Earnings link also appears on the Timecard Manager (single employee view only). If the Supplemental Earnings link is not visible, your company may not support supplemental earnings in ezLaborManager. Check with your system administrator.
Depending upon how
your system is configured, an employee may have more than one Employee
ID. Use the employee
filter (), navigation
(
and
),
and/or lookup (
) buttons
to select the employee whose information you want to view.
Use the Pay Date Range tools
to select a range that includes the date for which you need to award
supplemental earnings. For instance, if you are entering supplemental
earnings for today, click and select Today.
Any supplemental earnings that have already been reported for the
employee for today will be displayed. If no supplemental earnings
have been reported for today, a blank row with today's date will be
displayed.
Note: Although this step is not required, adjusting the supplemental earnings view to reflect an appropriate date range can simplify the process of entering a new supplemental earnings record. You can enter supplemental earnings for any date in the current or next pay period, even if you are viewing a different date range. If you do this, the transaction will be recorded when you click Submit, but it will disappear from the supplemental earnings screen you are viewing because the new record falls outside the date range being viewed. To view the new supplemental earnings record, you will have to adjust the date range of the Supplemental Earnings page.
If necessary, click to add a new supplemental earnings row to
the current display.
Tip: You can also use the Insert button to add new rows.
If necessary, edit or enter
the date for your new supplemental earnings record, or use the button
to select the appropriate date.
In the Earnings Code column,
click to open the Supplemental
Earnings Code Lookup window.
Select the appropriate code for the type of supplemental earnings you are recording.
Note: The available supplemental earnings codes vary by company.
In the Entered Amount column, enter an appropriate value, such as the monetary amount of a bonus.
If the supplemental earnings
should be charged to specific labour categories, use the buttons in the labour category columns (such
as Department and Job) to specify the correct categories.
Note: If the employee's earnings are generally assigned to one or more default labour categories, the codes for these default categories may already appear in these columns. You can delete or change these codes as appropriate.
If you want to include any
additional information about the supplemental earnings award, click
the button on the right side of the page, enter
your comments in the pop-up window, and click the Done
button.
Note:
When you click the button,
the Notes window opens above the row and the row is highlighted so
that you can see which row you are adding, viewing, or editing notes
for. Depending on whether a note has already been added and submitted
for a row, the following buttons are displayed:
- A
note does not exist for a row. This is also the default note icon
which is displayed before any notes have been added to a row.
- All text has been deleted from a note
window, but the page has not been submitted since the text was deleted.
- A note exists for a row and the page
has been submitted since the note was added or edited.
- A note exists for a row, but the page
has not yet been submitted since the note was added or edited.
Click Submit to save the new supplemental earnings record.
If the record is complete and meets your company's requirements, the Supplemental Earnings page will refresh and display an "Operation Successful" message.
Tip:
If an "Operation Unsuccessful" message appears, click the
icon for the failed record
to view a pop-up window containing troubleshooting information.
Notes:
Any supplemental earnings transaction you create for your employees will
be recorded in the edit audit trail with your user ID and default edit
reason code. If you have not specified a default reason code in your user
options, your company's default edit reason code will automatically be
used in the edit audit trail. The reason code allows a person viewing
the edit audit trail to know why an edit was made. If you do not want
to use your company's default edit reason code, you can select
a different edit reason code in your user options.
You can view the edit
audit trail for any supplemental earnings entry by clicking on the appropriate row of the
Supplemental Earnings page
After you submit a supplemental earnings record, ezLaborManager
performs any calculations required to calculate the total amount for the
record and displays the result in the Final Amount column. For example,
if you enter 100 miles and your company policy provides compensation of
$.37 per mile, the Final Amount column will display $37.00 after you click
Submit.
After you have successfully submitted a supplemental earnings transaction,
the transaction may still require your approval (if your company requires
manager approval of supplemental earnings). To approve the transaction,
click the Supervisor Approval check box and click Submit.