I’m trying to figure out the best way to handle the retention bonus’s we paid out to some hourly employees this month.  We have never given retention bonus to non exempt employees before so there is an issue on our overtime FLSA calculation.   According to the department of labor we need to adjust the overtime rate of pay each check over the 2 year period of the retention bonus.   I tried to figure out how to make this work properly in our Lawson test environment and tried everything I could ...

We've had a change to our pay scale that has resulted in market adjustments for about 500 employees.  What's the best way to process these pay rate changes in Lawson  I've used add-ins before but I haven't ever uploaded to PA52.  I tried to map my fields for PA52.1 and get the result 'Add complete - Continue' but there's no data in report file in PA100.  From what I've read it has something to do with hidden keys, which I know nothing about.

Our HR area originally had 6 super users running add-ins to S3 Human Resources but a year later later we are now at over 60 super users. There have been some data integrity issues stemming from poorly designed, un-tested add-ins being applied directly to production. We have been asked to identify best practices for managing, testing, documenting, and communicating 'Changes' that are being made via the add-ins. Does someone have a best practices model, document or policy or procedures they could ...

Hi All, My company initially set up a 457b and HSA plan without catch up provisions.  Now they want to tackle them.  If you're not familiar with 457b, the catch up is comprised of contributions from missed participation in previous years (there's a lot more to it, but that's the gist).  The HSA is a simple additional $1000 per year for 55 participants.  Are these accomplished by just additional deductions  Or does this require a second plan  And since BSI has no HSA override code, is the lim...

When you have 27 pay checks in a year (this doesn't happen often-about every 11 years). Do you run your BN150 that 27th payroll

We are moving our employees to a new pay check Friday.  So to do this; we are going to pay them all a 1 week check just once. Then they will be on a new 2 week check cycle after that. I know I need new pay plans for the new 2 week pay schedule and to attach it to all the employees. Has anyone done this before (changed check cycles and created a 1 week check)  I tested BN150 and even though on the BN150 I put a 1 week range in the beginning and end date fields; it still calculated on 14 days (pr...

The Exempt from Overtime field is marked as required on the HR10.  The processor said they created the PA52 and updated the Exempt from Overtime field within the action. (yes to no)    When payroll runs there is an error because they are going to hourly and they cant load their hours because although HR11 is accurate (showing N in exempt from overtime field), the HR54/PA54 history record is not showing the most recent record for that field from the PA52 that was just entered.    If we try to...

Does anyone have a procedure they can share on using the move from level option on the PA52  It looks to me as if you need to pend actions and run the PA100 if you are swapping level 1 and 2 positions.    Thanks.

How do I correct this error in PA52 so I can reverse the REHIRE action Cannot reverse; no prior history for Assignment date

We are in the process of upgrading to Lawson V10, and doing some regression test. We had a workflow that looks for the terminated employee and remove that employee from the benefit group. This used to work on V9 and it's not working anymore on V10.   Here are my ags calls to HR55.2 to page through data to find an employee.   Inqure HR55.2 to get the first page with the following AGS _TDS=Ignore&_PDL=PROD&_TKN=HR55.2&FC=Inquire&PRG-COMPANY=10&PRG-GROUP-NAME=BN-EPO&PRG-BENEFITS=Y&PRG-ABSENCE-...

We are looking to have employees not currently enrolled in our 403b default into the plan for 1.   Has anyone done this before  How was it accomplished  How do you track  Any pitfalls Thanks

Our company is trying to re-design the HR web pages and is considering one that will require us to interface way too much data from Lawson to an external site. The VP asked if I could ask in this forum if anyone has had an outside company design web pages for them to be used in-house so that we can keep the Lawson ESS functionality and utilize process flows. If you have any recommendations for website design I would appreciate it if you would please email me mary.porternahealth.com

We have all employees set up as hourly employees. If an exempt person doesn't work for a day and doesn't have PTO then they don't get paid for that day, or if an exempt employee terminates mid-week, they don't get paid for the rest of the week. The consultants that set up the system advised to make everyone hourly. Our new comp & benefits director wants to know why we don't have exempt employees classified as salaried. From what I can see from testing, if I am salaried I get paid 1/26th of my sa...

We are in the process of setting up LP and am not sure how to allow for how we process salaried benefit time.  We process 2 different pay cycles on the same pay run.  Hourly cycle is paid through the Saturday before paydate.. Salaried cycle is paid to the Saturday after paydate.. Ex. paydate is 1/16/15, hourly cycle is paid for hours 12/28/14 to 1/10/15, salaried cycle is paid for dates 01/05/15 to 01/17/15.  Hours are pulled from Kronos on 1/12/15 for both.. Therefore payroll has set up Kronos ...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the revised EEO-4 Form that state and local governments need to complete to allow respondents to select more than one race and ethnicity. State and local governments will receive the new EEO-4 Form in mid-July when the survey opens. This will impact the EEO-4 Lawson report (PA391). Due to the OMB's late approval of the revised form, we can use the current form to report 2015 data, but the EEOC recommends that public sector employers updat...

Hello, Has anyone converted from Lawson Performance Management for Healthcare to Inform LTM Performance and Goal Management Any advice would be helpful. Thanks KK

Hello, Has anyone converted from Lawson Performance Management for Healthcare to Inform LTM Performance and Goal Management Any advice would be helpful. Thanks KK

Does anyone have a list of the BN100 error messages and what they mean I was looking for something on mylawson and there was nothing out there. There was however an older conversation on their forums about a list and someone had one and was willing to share. But no way to contact them.

On version 9.0.1 having trouble getting my add-in to work on PA52.4.  I'm getting the message 'Pending action does not exist (_f78)'.  Any help appreciated.  Thanks.

How do you handle any employee's First Name that is greater than 15 characters We have some diversified populations coming from all over the world and Lawson's standard First Name is not good enough to hold more than 15 characters. We end up truncating the name after 15 characters. I know we can expand the size of the field in the table, but as all know that is a pain for Upgrades, patches and is a customization. This also impact downstream systems. I would like to know how have some of you h...

We are having an issue when running LP140 for terminated employees before paying out their LP31 balance.  The LP140 is going back and re-opening the employees previously closed overtime service records from that were created by PR132.  It does not do this with the employee's regular time service records, only the ones created by PR132.  The service codes are all set up the same so we can't figure out why the overtime records would be retroactively accruing  Where should we begin to look

We are implementing the mass reconciliation process for the payroll system.    The PR155 report is not working the way we would expect a reconciliation report to perform after we did a mass reconciliation.  I am assuming the logic should go like this:   after update has been run (date range: since inception to end of our reconciled month), it should show only open checks correct    If it is run in report only mode after a mass reconciliation is run, it should show open checks and checks that ...

I don't see any recent posts on this topic - does anyone have a recommendation for an EDI translator to create HIPAA 834 files

Hello, it is me again Trish with Navicent Health in Macon, GA.  I have been asked to reach out as I did back in April, looking for check list, procedure, and processes.  At this time we are scheduled to implement and go live with Human Resources and Payroll, in December 2015.  We have been through many consultants and of course everyone wants to do things differently.  Same as with SC/AP many of our procedures and processes are having to change, and right now the business is having a hard time a...

We are attempting to write a query in Access that will grab the most recent benefit enrollment for an employee.  We are finding that if a status change is performed that affects the benefit for the employee a stop date is placed on the first enrollment with a start date the day following.  (For instance the employee goes from part time to full time which affect their premium amount).  For for 2015, they may have an enrollment from 1/1/15 - 3/14/15 and then a subsequent enrollment starting at 3/1...