Tagged: Payroll Accounting

The Tableau report "Flexible Payroll Expense Data" has been enhanced with the addition of a new tab titled "Flexible Payroll Actuals- Annual Trend." In this tab users can compare payroll spend data by fiscal year.   

Two Payroll Accounting reports have/will be updated based on some user feedback.

The "Payroll Accounting Adjustments Status" report has been updated as of October 17. The "Created By" field has been replaced with the "Initiating Worker" and "Initiating Worker's Employee ID" fields so that this information is visible to all report end users. A column with approver information has also been added, titled "Approved by Workers."

To address the Workday encumbrance issues associated with payroll commitments for biweekly pay period 14 (6/16-6/29), FY24 payroll commitments were closed out the week of Monday, July 8 and a new integration with a journal source of "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" was run to clear outstanding balances in FY24. Correcting entries for over liquidations in FY25 associated with PPD14 also have been posted. Reporting for personnel encumbrances should now be back on track and we will resume the regular encumbrance adjustments schedule starting July 15.

Initial FY25 payroll commitments were run on Sunday, June 23. Please be aware that FY24 payroll commitments will not zero out until a new integration with a journal source of "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" runs on Friday, July 12. Correcting entries for any over liquidations will also post on July 12.

Currently, when Period Activity Pay is initiated, the costing allocation details are required to be entered. We are excited to share that a change is being made starting Thusday, June 20 that will allow Period Activity Pay to be initiated without the costing allocation details. This will then allow the downstream approvers, HR Consultant, or Cost Center Manager, to add the costing allocation information during their review. The costing allocation information must be entered to successfully complete the Period Activity Pay business process.

The Workday "Effort Certification Status Report – OSU" has been updated to ensure terminated employees are included. Previously, when using cost center or cost center hierarchy with the Org Assignment Cost Center Hierarchies prompt, terminated workers would not display.

During the week of Monday, January 29, an enhancement for retro pay on grants for salary over the cap will change for specific job families. Currently, any retro pay on grants with salary over the cap defaults to over the cap worktags. After the change, retro pay no longer cap for the job families listed below. 

As previously communicated in October, Cost Center Managers were encountering an error when completing Period Activity Pay (PAP), within the Hire process, when the proposed Cost Center was not their Cost Center.

The workaround was to cancel the PAP and then initiate as a stand-alone process that would clear the error. Workday released a fix for this issue during the weekend of December 16 and now the step is working appropriately.

Shortly after the September 2023 release, in some cases, when a Period Activity Pay is initiated as part of a hire or add job, an error message may occur during the Cost Center Manager approval step. 

The message displayed is “The entered information does not meet the restrictions defined for this field.” Cost Center Managers are unable to bypass the message. A ticket has been logged with Workday. 

Under Executive Order (EO) 14026, federal contractors are required to pay a minimum wage for employees working on, or in connection with, certain federal contracts. EO 14026 applies to contracts, subcontracts or contract-like instruments if the agreement is: