Lawson Absence Management or Kronos for accruals and FMLA

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Big Daddy
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    We currently have Lawson HR feeding the time Accruals back to Kronos on a weekly basis so that employees can look at their balances in Kronos (using Lawson Time Accruals).

    As Lawson decommissions Time Accural we are tasked with should we go with Kronos's Time Accrual for our needs or Lawsons Absence Management module (and continue to feed the accruals to Kronos).

     
    Our Requirements:
    "Family Medical Leave Act" eligibility and history tracking, based on Federal, State and Local requirements.
    Auto enrollment into plans
    Plan transfer management and automation (no manual intervention)
    Employee hour donations management
    Ability to have balances show up in Lawson Employee and Manager Self Service
    Ability to have separte accruals for employees by position (hosptal needs)
    We need to accrue at any time,  ot just after or before running a Lawson Payroll.  We need to do a rolling year in figuring out the eligiblilty. 
    We need to track intermittent leave.
    We accrue hours and earnings.
    We accrue based on the Hire Date
    We have different set of rules for our various unions and employee groups.
    Rules consists of Accural rules, Eligibility rules, Negative balance Rules, GL Rules, Payroll  rules, Service rules and Carryover or Rollover rules
    We need to display leave balances on the paychecks. 
    We also still need to feed the PTO liability back to our Lawson Financial system.
     
     
    What have you decided to do now that Lawsons Time Accrual prior to the decommissiong.  I had talked to the Kronos Rep and the Lawson Rep and they both seem that they would meet our needs (but I believe they are trying to make a sale). Just trying to obtain some advice from others that have been there.  I would also love to hear WHAT REALLY INFLUENCED YOUR FINAL DECISION. Thanks in advance.
     
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    Phil Simon
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      My experience with Kronos, although I am far from an expert, is that it can probably handle these requirements. I share your skepticism about salespeople, though. If you're talking about tying everything into Lawson's GL, I would grill the salesperson on the particulars. Ask for a demo with as many of your mainstream requirements shown out of the box and you'll be less surprised mid-implementation.
      Phil Simon http://philsimonsystems.com/ phil@philsimonsystems.com