Reporting Supplemental Earnings
If your company compensates you for certain activities that are not directly related to the number of hours you work, you may be required to enter these reimbursable activities using ezLaborManager's Supplemental Earnings page. If you work in the restaurant industry, you may also be required to use the Supplemental Earnings page to record your tips and your gross receipts.
To create a new supplemental earnings record:
Click the My Information tab.
On the My Home page, click the My Supplemental Earnings icon to open the Supplemental Earnings page.
Tip: You can also open the Supplemental Earnings page by clicking the Supplemental Earnings link on the Timecard.
Use the Pay Date Range tools to select a range that includes the date for which you need to report supplemental earnings. For instance, if you are entering supplemental earnings for today, click and select Today. Any supplemental earnings you have already reported for today will be displayed. If you have not reported any supplemental earnings 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 buttons to select the appropriate date range.
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 number of miles, or the total amount of your tips or gross receipts.
If the supplemental earnings should be charged to a specific labor category, use the buttons in the labor category columns (such as Department and Job) to specify the correct categories.
Note: If your earnings are generally assigned to one or more default labor categories, the codes for your default categories may already appear in these columns. You can delete or change these codes as appropriate.
If you are required to provide an explanation of your supplemental expenses, or if you want to include any additional information, 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 your 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:
When you submit a supplemental earnings record, ezLaborManager
performs any calculations required to figure your total compensation 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
the Submit button.
If you later need to come back and edit a supplemental earnings entry,
keep in mind that your company may be set up so that once your supervisor has approved a supplemental
earnings entry, the entry is locked and you cannot make any further changes
to it. If your company is configured this way, you can only edit entries
that have not yet been approved by your supervisor.
If one or more of your supplemental earnings entries has been locked for
this reason, the following message is displayed at the top of the Supplemental
Earnings page: "Rows may be disabled because supervisor
approval has occurred."
If your company is not configured this way, you can continue to edit supplemental
earnings entries after supervisor
approval has occurred. If you edit entries that have already been approved
by you or your supervisor,
the approvals will be removed and you and/or your supervisor
will have to approve your supplemental earnings entries again.
Regardless of how your company is configured for editing supplemental earnings
entries, you can only edit entries in the current or next pay period.
If you have questions about editing your supplemental earnings entries,
contact your supervisor.