Setting up the Benefit Event

On the Pay and Leave Event (EVNT) page, the HRM administrator will establish which events are to be evaluated if the client site has specified on the plan that a benefit or deduction is conditional on a specific number of event hours reported on his/her timesheet.  If the event is to be evaluated and accumulated towards the qualification of a benefit or deduction, the HRM administrator will select the Benefit Eligibility Test check box.

For exception paid employees, the Benefit Eligibility Hours batch job will perform a subtraction from standard pay period hours based on the employee’s pay class for those hours that do not have the Benefit Eligibility Test and FMLA selected on the events.

If the event is for FMLA leave and it is to be counted by the Benefit Eligibility Test batch job, the administrator will select the Benefit Eligibility Test and the FMLA check box in the Pay Event Information section of the EVNT. The Benefit Eligibility Test batch job will generate a row on the BEN_ELIG_HRS table for the total FMLA hours reported.

Note: Retro payments are identified by the retro sequence number being greater than zero and will not be counted towards eligibility hours.

To set up benefit events, open the EVNT page and perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Create button.

  2. Complete the General Information section. 

  3. Complete the Pay Event Information section.

  4. Benefit Eligibility Test – If the event is to be evaluated and accumulated towards the qualification of a benefit/deduction, the HRM administrator will select the Benefit Eligibility Test check box. The event will then be picked up when the Benefit Eligibility Test batch job runs. The Benefit Eligibility Test batch job will generate a row on the BEN_ELIG_HRS table for the total hours reported where Benefit Eligibility Test was selected.

For exception paid employees, the Benefit Eligibility Hours batch job will perform a subtraction from standard pay period hours based on the employee’s pay class for those hours that do not have the Benefit Eligibility Test and FMLA selected on the events.

Employees that have a Personnel Action (PACT) on the Employee Status Maintenance (ESMT) with Job End checked will have Benefit Eligibility Hours calculated in the following ways when running the Benefit Eligibility Test batch job:

  • When an employee specified with ‘Job End’ does not have a Timesheet Adjustment (TADJ) with ‘Prorate Benefit Eligibility for Job End’ checked on Event Type (EVNT):
    Benefit Eligibility Hours = Active Days X 8 Hours X 60 Minutes X Percent Full-Time
    Example: Employee is hired on January 1, an ESMT is submitted on January 11 and the PACT has ‘Job End’ checked and does not have a Timesheet Adjustment. The employees Percent Full-Time is 1.
    Benefit Eligibility Hours = 10 active days * 8 hours * 60 minutes * 1 = 4800
    Note: Percent Full-Time is only included in the calculation when the USE FTE PERCENT SPAR is set to yes.

  • When an employee specified with ‘Job End’ has a Timesheet (TADJ) with ‘Prorate Benefit Eligibility for Job End’ checked on Event Type (EVNT):
    Benefit Eligibility Hours = Proration based on active days / evaluation period days X pay class hours * 60 minutes + sum of TADJ events where Benefit Eligibility is true.
    Example: Employee is hired on January 1, an ESMT is submitted on January 11 that has a PACT with ‘Job End’ checked and has a Timesheet Adjustment on January 5 for 10 hours. The employees pay class hours are 87 as defined on Pay Class (PYCL).
    Benefit Eligibility Hours = 10 active days/15 evaluation days * (87 hours * 60 minutes) + (10 TADJ hours * 60 minutes) = 4280 

FMLA - If the event is for FMLA leave and it is to be counted by the Benefit Eligibility Test batch job, the administrator will select the Benefit Eligibility Test and the FMLA check box in the Pay Event Information section of the EVNT.

The Benefit Eligibility Test batch job will generate a row on the BEN_ELIG_HRS table for the total FMLA hours reported.

*Note: Retro payments are identified by the retro sequence number being greater than zero and will not be counted towards eligibility hours.

  1. Complete the Display Salary Calculation section.

  2. Complete the FLSA Processing Information section.

  3. Complete the CCOMP Processing Information section.

  4. Complete the Contract/Reserve Pay Information section.

  5. Complete the Accounting Information section.

  6. Complete the Leave Event Information section.

  7. Complete the Valid Transactions section.

  8. Complete the Employee Role Options section.

  9. Complete the User-defined Fields section.

  10. Click Save.