1) What are user placeholder rates
2) Why would this feature be used
3) When would this feature be used
4) How to assign placeholder rates
5) What payroll applications currently support placeholder rates
6) How to assign placeholder rates
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1) What are user placeholder rates
User placeholder rates allow you to override the multiplier or hourly rate for a payroll category in the award at the user level. This allows complete flexibility in managing above award rates for only specific times of the day while allowing the user to be on the award base rate and apply award penalties or overtime for other times of the day.
2) Why would this feature be used
This feature would be used if a user is on varying pay rates throughout different times of the day.
3) When would this feature be used
This feature could be used at any time, although you would primarily use this feature when adding a user to a pay group, updating a user's pay group, and so on.
4) How to assign placeholder rates
i) Example of placeholder rates in action
This user, Andrea Lewins, is on the award rate of $27.1632, but is set to pay $35 for hours on Monday to Friday between 8am and 7pm. On Saturday, between 8am and 7pm, Andrea will be paid $40. All other pay rates will be based on the award rates, calculated on the award base rate of $27.1632.
ii) Award pay group screen
iii) Payroll calculation
5) What payroll applications currently support placeholder rates
This feature requires a payroll application which accepts hourly rates in the payroll data file or through the API:
- Payroll Guru.
- Sage MicrOpay.
- Attache.
6) How to assign placeholder rates
- Open the users change award pay group screen.
- Down the bottom of that dialogue, there is a section called User placeholder rates.
- Here you can edit or delete an existing placeholder rate.
- To add a new place holder rate, select it from the available list (making sure you select the correct codes relating to the user, e.g. P for permanent, C for casual.
- Override the multiplier of hourly rate.