Has anyone found a way to do a negative retro pay calculation in Lawson We have an employee who had a job change which resulted in a reduction in pay that should have taken place on 4/29/12 so we have to take back the reduction amount. We tried entering a negative percent or a negative $ amount in pr131 but it won't take negatives.  So if we can't make this work then we will need to do it manually but it would be nice to see if the system could do it.

We are going from flat contributions and percentage to percentage only. The company match may not calculate correctly for employees who front load the contributions at the beginning of the year. The true-up is to make sure that the employee is not penalized for hitting the maximum deferral dollar amount early in the year ($17,000 base contribution that is matched). A true-up looks at the employee's deferrals and 'levels' them throughout the year to see if they would have otherwise received a lar...

We added a new field to our custom table using dbdef. However at the time of dbreorg, we received the following message. File PERSACTION will be Reorganized. Index L_CHSTAMP Added Field L_CHSTAMP Added We dont know how this column/index added to the table. However, we dont see this column/index in dbdef. We are clueless on what triggered the addition of the same. We did not install any Lawson patch too Any advise/suggestion Warm Regards Dinesh

Wondering if someone has used the basic Lawson product (S3) - without customization - for a tuition reimbursement plan  I would like to be able to put in the annual amount the individual employee is approved for (budget) and then track reimbursements as they are made.  Ideally, I would be able to project this into the future.  For example - I apply for tuition reimbursment and am approved for $3,000 each year for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. I know deductions can be treated as add to net, so ther...

Has anyone had an issue where PR160 is flagged to print zero payment on reciepts however they started to print on live checks and causing duplicate payment  numbers

We currently have one HR company, multiple process levels (one has a separate EIN than the others) and several GL companies. We have a group of employees that currently work in both EINs. Today to ensure these employees only receive one W2 we have created a dummy G/L department and use it as a 'clearing' house. The problem with this is that it is very difficult and manual to balance and re-class the 'clearing' house account. It is a manual process for the manager to remember to send an e...

My organization is a new Lawson HR-Payroll customer. I have recently been assigned a task to create a accumulative report that shows those employees that have missed benefit premiums deductions. Whether it be partial or entire amounts missed per pay period/pay day. Can anyone provide me instruction on which Lawson tables I will need to accomplish this task and the criteria to use to determine a missed deduction Or of anyone already has a crystal report or Lawson Add-in that they can share. T...

We were set up to not withhold company paid unemployment amounts because we are a non-profit, but payroll would like to use the PR291. Our consultant suggested that the only way we can do this is to withhold unemployment and then have GL remove the liability. How do other non-profits handle unemployment reporting

We need to update the pay plan field in HR11 for a large group of people. We do not do our payroll in house, but what is the proper way to acomplish this so our benefit plans work properly. Just changing the pay plan in HR11 didn't interface over to benefits. Do I need to user personal actions or HR511 Suggestions needed ...

In order to be able to utilize Lawsons arrears process (PR139), we need to bring our std claim payments in house because those checks have benefit premiums taken out of them.   I am an HR person, not PR, but I thought maybe we could use the PR582 Mass Adjustment load to load the employees that our 3rd party vendor identifies as being on LOA and eligible for std pymt with the gross pymt amt. In theory, the employees that our 3rd party vendor sends us would not be receiving a regular check BUT ...

We just completed our first migration to 901 and are attempting to begin testing.  When running LP264 to compare totals betwee 900 and 901, we discovered totals didn't match and then discovered records were missing.  We are also going from oracle to sequel server.  It appears as if the reason for the failure is that some records in the TAEMPTRANS table have invalid reset dates along with blank date fields. Has anyone else had this issue and if so, how did you fix it Thanks for your he...

We just completed an initial meeting with Hartford and would like to be able to network with other Lawson users who have outsourced their FMLA administration to Hartford or other administrators.

Hello, Could anyone please help me in knowing the process if any field is required to be changed in ZQ20 using Lawson AddIns what should be the parameters of excel file to be uploaded and what should be the process to be followed. I need to make changes in ZQ20 Contact 7 MISC details for all the active Process Levels in Lawson and I think the best possible way to update it is via Lawson AddIns but I am not sure about the table names to be used. Please let me know about the upload function and...

Are you able to somehow bypass BSI when running PR140 We used Lawson for payroll in the past and had active maintenance with BSI, but no longer do either. However, we have been running through about 150 drivers through lawson payroll, but they are 1099s. Can we somehow bypass the need for PR140 to use BSI There has to be a setting somewhere!!

Our payroll is running a bonus check and needs to remove additional amounts that employees have elected for State and Federal Taxes. Does anyone know what I can do via add-ins to wipe out the tax code on the Additional Amount so that we can remove these and them put them back in after the check run I tried 00, I tried *Blank - add-ins says that it did the change but nothing really happened. If anyone knows what I can do, or knows how to make a bonus check ignore an extra tax amount, I would ap...

We are currently building benefit plans and employee groups on S3 9.01 LTM 10 for Jan 2013. Would anyone be willing to share their design documents as we are having a bit of difficulty visualizing best design; particularly in regards to nesting employee groups for inclusion and/or exclusion. Words of wisdom are also welcome!! Thank you. Deanna Allgood Benefits System Specialist Summa Health System Akron, OH

What is the best way to handle multiple local taxes for one employee I am hoping to use the PR530 to upload the location code but am not sure if that is possible. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc

We have added new locations to our Lawson system as additional Process Levels under our single company 1000 in product line PROD and this has worked fine.  But now we are now being asked to take on a new hospital, but this one will be different.  They need to be completely autonomous from our existing locations and will have their own HR and payroll processing center, leave plans, benefit plans, bank, etc.  It doesn't seem like adding them as a process level under our existing company 1000 will ...

Has anyone set up an LP Absence Management plan to accommodate this Mandated Sick Leave Act  We are just upgrading from TA to LP and wanted to know if anyone has successfully set up a plan.

Hi I'd like to store a date calendar in Lawson to record each date of the year along with a related orientation date.  The intent of this is to relate an employee's start date to the date that their new employee orientation will be held.  I intend to use this to create reports to the orientation team so they can see who will be attending orientation on a particular date so they can do appropriate planning and create class rosters.  Does a current form exist where these dates can be stored, or...

Our benefits area would like an automated report that shows the before and after values of certain fields. By this I mean, if an employee changed their dependent's birthdate from 2/1/1992 to 2/1/2002 they would like to see both values on the report. Since changes to the dependent table are not logged in history I am uncertain how to do this. Has anybody else had to do this Any suggestions are appreciated.

Trying to figure out the reporting challenge with this. Have an employee who has time entered in PR36 with a department code of 0001. Prior to running PR140, employee is transferred to a position with a different department, so the default department for the employee is now 0004 (and has a different expense account). The PR140 now shows the employee under department 0004 with the correct hours amount from PR36 - and the hours are actually getting allocated to the correct expense account. But ...

Currently, we log an employee on LOA and if they have optional STD, that information is sent to our 3rd party vendor.  The vendor pays the employee their std checks until they come back from LOA. The checks the vendor pays out to the employee has all their benefit deductions taken out of their std checks. Lawson has no record that the employee has been paying for premiums all along. When the employee RFL, they begin getting regular checks again BUT because we don't have the premium payment hi...

I have a group of HR Representatives that I want to have entering Personnel Actions for associates that do not report directly to them.   I know that I could give them access to PA52 but it is not very user friendly and would give them way too many actions to pick from...   If I have personnel actions that the manager of an associate can enter does anyone know a way to tell the system that the HR Rep should be allowed to enter for all associates   I am trying to find a way to make the system ...

I would like to hear from anyone using LP - we have our PTO usage coming over to the GL on the PR198 as debiting the PTO Payable Accrual account. Then the LP198 comes over as a debit to the PTO Payable Accrual account. So the account is getting hit twice for usage. How is anyone doing this so that usage only hits the account once We just went live on 1/1 of this year and not sure that we got the best advice from our consultants during setup. Any help would be appreciated.