We have recently acquired another hospital and are getting ready to bring their employees under our umbrella. For our current employees, we are using the Adjusted HireDate to determine Benefits Service and Hire Date for when we hire new employees.  We're not using Seniority and Anniversary dates for anything other than reflecting the Hire Date. Have any of you acquired other health care agencies and how did you track them in Lawson as being seperate but also part of your system Where did you...

Hi I am new to using Lawson and have not been trained on the software. I am used to using Peoplesoft. I have access to the back tables to run queries in MS Access. That ebing said,  I was told by Lawson support that there is not a report that will produce this report.  The report need to include a breakdown of the unemployment report breaking it down by worksite location which is the location code located on the HR11 Assignment tab. The report need to reflect by company, by location the...

I would like to add new Position Budget records in PA70.1 for certain positions. These positions have an effective date such as 12/15/2008, 1/10/2009, 1/04/2009, .. i.e. effective dates not at the beginning of the month. When I try to add a position budget record for these positions, I get the return message, Position does not exist for entire time period. When the position has an effective date at the beginning of the month, I am able to successfully add a Position Budget record. Can anyone ...

We are upgrading to 9x, and we're trying to determine what training is needed for HRIS support.   We are concerned with having the appropriate knowledge to manage the new security design which includes RM.  Our IT group is going to training, and we believe that we need training as well.  We utilize MSS and workflow aqmong other things.   What I have seen on the lawson site, seems to support that our functional HR support team needs to have some level of the security admin training.  IT will ...

In 7.2 there is no such field for on Pay Periods in ther year. Being that in year 2009 we will be paid 27 times, what is a likley work around if any. Is anyone else running across this situation

9.0 apps and 9.0 environment - New Job Req page does not have anything under the Status drop down box.  Do I have to setup something else before our data will populate that field

I am doing a query for PA02 and need the status and status name or description.  I can get the status but I can't find where the description is located.  It is a lawson field.  Does anyone know how to retrieve it when doing a PA02 Query Thanks, Barbara

I am looking to use the upload wizard to CHANGE an existing deduction. All I want to do is have it change the amount of a deduction for the specific employee for the specific deduction code. How do I do this Thanks Shane

I have looked for a solution to this in the past with no success....   I am wondering if anyone has found a solution in LSF9. The Search box in portal defaults to 'Last Name'.   This is both case sensitive and requires a wild card.   I am trying to find what I need to change so that the 'Name' field will be the default search for all users. Anyone know what I need to change   Will this be easier to do on our test box of LSF9

Our ER department wants a double check in place to make sure they code some of our Law Enforcement employees as being exempt for SS.  I've been exploring with Add-Ins to see if we can get a report that meets requirements using that tool.  It seems easy enough to grab the appropriate employees by Process Level and Department, and get the appropriate deduction codes.  However, I'm trying to use DEDUCTION.TAX EXEMPT.FLG to identify which (if any) employees were the Tax Exempt Code is blank (No).  ...

We have been looking at creating some total compensation reports, but were outraged at some of the costs that we've heard for 3rd parties to implement. That high cost is especially outrageous when you realize that you have to do all the work anyways of getting the data in the proper formats and choosing what data to use and how it will be displayed. I have created a very low cost method for us to use, but I'm curious to hear what other organizations are using for their Total Compensation r...

We had to replace about 5 checks written in 2006 but replaced in 2008.  The PR297 is correct for 2006 and 2006 but the PR261 and PR260 is not, it does not  match the PR297. PR260 includes the manual checks in the 2008 report with the original 2006 dates.  PR261 includes the manual replacemnt checks in the 2008 report with the 2008 dates. None of the checks appear in 2006. Consequently, PR261 does not match our PR297.  To my way of thinking since we use the check replacement screen the system...

'Manually-defined HR employee groups can’t have more than 10,000 employees (on this one I guess I’d agree with Lawson that any list which requires manual maintenance shouldn’t really have that many employees–and that there should be some criteria which is common enough across that group to make it an automatically-populated employee group.  But just the same, a “duplicate record” error isn’t the right “solution”.)' Is there any other limitation that big companies (80k or greater employees) shou...

We have a non-qualified savings plan for executives where the employer match does not start until they reach the annual comp limit for qualified plans ($230K for 2008). Anyone else have a plan set up this way in Lawson - can you share how you set this up Cindy Stowell cindy.stowellkerry.com

Hi guys, I want to list the 'payment Due Date' for the list of Employees on disability Pension in my Crystal Report. So, would like to know what cud be the table and feild to get 'Payment Due Date' for the employee   Appreciate ur help

We are on Windows Platform, Environment 9.0.0.4 and Applications 9.0/MSP2. We are launching ESS and have about 3000 employees. Of those 3000, about 500 are already Lawson Portal users and therefore already have Security Profiles. For those users, we'd like to be able to simply add the ESS Role to their security profiles without affecting their present security. Has anyone been able to find a tool like the 'CreateUsersXML.vbs' script Lawson provides for adding new users, that can instead be use...

We upgraded this year to Lawson 9 on the i-series and we test printed W2 4-stack laser forms.  They no longer print correctly but they did in version 7.  Can anyone tell how to print correctly in 9  Do you have to use 3rd party software  Lawson's website gives that impression. Thanks!

After months of looking, for the life of me I cannot find documentation on how to nest employee groups, we are on 9.0 and going live in a few months.  Logged a ticket with support to get info but they just referred me to an article that told me what employee groups are.  In Lawson training the trainer told me that nesting doesn't work in 9.0.  Can anyone help  Thanks.

I'm trying to build the HIPAA834 file for Health and it appears to be a situation.  I can create a sequetial file but must be able to remove the embedded spaces between the asterick (*).  ie I have a field that can be 1 to 10 positions, I need three position.  I can't leave the other seven blank I must remove and replace with an asterick and then the next field starts.  Another example is if the field is not populated then I must have two asterick to delimit the field. Can anyone give me some...

Do the PF desiger/scheduler/admin work under Vista (Very sorry if this has been posted elsewhere)

We are on enviro 8.0.3.7 and app version 8.1. we are implementing ess/mss and I'm confused about whether or not Information Office will be used or the Lawson Portal. I think that you have to deem to use one or the other and then do the appropriate set-up. Some of the documentation that I've read indicates that prior to 8.1 information office was used, but 8.1 uses the portal. Any info on this is appreciated.

Is there a way to attach scanned images of an employee file to an employee's HR11 record without using a third-party vendor like Image Now

Is there a standard Lawson form that is used to update the HRUTILITY table

We had an employee setup with a Health Savings account for a dependent.  This was in error, the employee has no dependents, the money should be moved to the employees Health savings account.  BN32 has ANNUAL_AMT and such.  How do we adjust this out Thanks.

Does anyone process W2s for Puerto Rico employees The year end guides aren't specific enough, because every time I try to test I can get only one W2 (and we have about 50 employees).  If you do process these, do you have any step by step instructions you'd be willing to share  We've given up in past years and filed directly on the Puerto Rico web site, but it's a manual process and extremely tedious with multiple opportunities for errors.  Thanks in advance Stephanie