GROUP INTERFACE FILE#

The Group Interface File screen is used to import groups codes into the software data structures.

Group Interface File data is maintained on the INF_CV_GROUPS table.

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Description#

Id

This field uniquely identifies the group record within the data base.

Entity

This field displays the entity to which the group belongs.

Unit

This field displays the unit to which the group belongs.

Group

This field identifies the group.

Standing

Standing is used to indicate whether the record is active, frozen or obsolete.

Effective As Of/Expires On

If the group is temporary, these fields will define the dates the group is effective.

Change Reason

This field displays the ‘Change Reason’ code, which provides the rationale as to why information has been created or changed as of an effective date.

Description

A short description of the group is defined in this field.

Employment Status

The initial employment status describes the condition of an employee’s employment with the organization when hired into a group.

Ended as Status

The ending employment status describes the condition of an employee’s employment with the organization after termination.

Work Rule

Work rules are used to determine standard payroll processing information required to create pay headers and transactions for an employee.

Payroll

This field shows the payroll in which this group will be processed.

Wage Step Rule

The wage step rule associated with the group will be displayed in this field.

Group Type

This field specifies whether the group is full time, part time, COBRA etc.

Pay Type

This field indicates whether the pay type is hourly, salaried or commission.

Std Hours Per Day

This field shows the standard hours in a normal work day.

Std Hours Per Pay

This field shows the standard hours in a regular pay period.

Std Hours Per Week

This field shows the standard hours in a normal work week.

FTE Wage

This field indicates the FTE wage associated with the group.

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Rate Details#

Hourly Rounding

This field shows the rounding factor to be used when converting a wage or salary amount to an hourly rate. .

Daily Rounding

This field shows the rounding factor to be used when converting a wage or salary amount to a daily rate.

Weeks Per Year

The weeks per year factor will be used to annualize a weekly rate of pay.

Months Per Year

The months per year factor will be used to annualize a monthly rate of pay.

Method

The GL accrual method determines how to derive the accrual factor used in calculating end-of-month payroll accruals in the Payroll GL Process (UPGL).

Registration #

This field provides the US EIN or Canada BN number for a registration type.

CDN EI Rate

The Canadian ‘Employment Insurance Employer’ rate is defined in this field.

Pay by Check

This field defines the default payment method.

Contract Type

This field identifies what type of contract exists for the group.

Employment Type

This field describes the type of relationship that the employees in this group have with the organization.

FLSA Factor

This field shows the rate at which earnings for time over the indicated base hours is to be paid.

FLSA Hours

This field shows the base hours after which the FLSA calculation will begin.

FLSA Calendar

If FLSA is to be calculated over more than 7 days, a calendar must be set up to define the cycle.

FLSA User Calc

If a UserCalc is needed to enhance the FLSA process it needs to be indicated here.

W2 Employment Type

This field indicates the employee's type of employment for US Quarterly and Year End Reporting. This reporting is not used in Canada.

Fed Regist Type

This field indicates the Federal Registration type associated to which this group belongs.

State Regist Type

This field indicates the State Registration type associated to which this group belongs.

Local Regist Type

This field indicates the Local Registration type associated to which this group belongs.

Govt Regist Set Fed

This field allows you to set up the Federal Registrations sets which will allow you to define one or multiple registrations at the federal level.

Govt Regist Set State

This field indicates the Government Registration set associated to which this group belongs.

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Registration#

Govt Regist Set Local

This field indicates the local Government Registration set associated to which this group belongs.

Fund UserCalc

WC Regist Type

This field indicates the WC Registration type for this group.

Allocation Type

This field indicates the Allocation type for this group.

Burden Percent

This field indicates the burden percent for this group.

Distribution DR Mask

This field indicates the distribution DR mask for this group.

Distribution CR Mask

This field indicates the distribution CR mask for this group.

Element Prorated By

Element Base Of

Dist Mask Rule

This field indicates the distribution mask rule for this group.

Burden Method

This field indicates the burden method for this group.

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