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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 01
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- In this section we will look at how hours are entered before each pay cycle. In
- the employee update program we have provided several methods of finding an
- employee. The default is "F4 Find All Active NOT SALARIED Empl." which will go
- right through the file and pull up all employees who might need hours entry,
- one after the other. This is an ideal choice for this purpose. Apart from any
- new hire's (which will be at the end) the employees will be in alphabetical
- order of surname. If you use time cards etc. it might be easier to have them
- in the same sequence.
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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 02
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- Here the first employee has been found. The default is to accept it so if an
- hours entry is to be made for this person just press Enter at this point. Even
- if an hours entry is not required you may still want to press enter because
- some other action may be needed, example this person may have terminated after
- the last pay, or is away on vacation after taking advance vacation pay in the
- last pay, in which case you will want to access the record anyway to change the
- Status Code on the first basic employee information screen to T or V (and if T
- you will also want to enter the reason code and the end date).
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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 03
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- The screen which selects where you wish to start reading the employee record
- appears. The default choice is "F6 Employee Current Hours" which is exactly
- what we need so just press enter.
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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 04
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- Now we have the hours entry screen. The top part of the screen will already be
- filled in for you so unless anything is to be changed you can leave it alone.
- In most cases the only entry needed here is "REG PAY HOURS" so press the down
- arrow key 4 times to bring the cursor down to that field and enter the hours.
- Hours entry is a decimal amount, example 75 hours and 15 minutes would be 75.25
- hours (because 15 minutes is 15/60ths. or .25 of an hour).
-
- If this employee worked shifts then you can allocate the regular hours over the
- shifts worked. This person worked a week on day shift and a week on the
- afternoon shift in her two week pay period. If she worked any overtime then
- also enter the overtime hours, in this case 4, and if the overtime was worked
- while on shift then allocate it between the shifts, in this case 2 hours whilst
- on the day shift and 2 hours whilst on the afternoon shift. This allocation of
- hours between shifts allows for precise calculations including any shift
- differentials as those differentials might also apply to the overtime (see the
- Configuration section for how to set up shift differentials).
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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 05
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- When we have completed the hours entry we can either press PgDn to go to the
- next screen (so we can press F8 for an optional preview of the pay and taxes
- for these hours) or we can get out of this employee record right now. Get out
- now is what you would want to do the majority of times. You do not need to
- page through remaining screens to get out, you also do not normally need to
- press F8 from the next screen, you can get out from any cursor position on any
- employee update screen by just pressing either the End key or the Esc key.
- When you press End or Esc the above window will pop up. Once that window pops
- up just press Y to save your changes, or follow the other directions in the
- window if you do not wish to save your changes at this point.
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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 06
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- We pressed Y on the previous window so now the hours we entered for Janette
- Anderson have been saved and the next employee has been located. We do have an
- entry to make for Pauline Carter so we simply press enter from this window.
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- Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 07
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- Once again the screen which selects where you wish to start reading the
- employee record appears. This time for Pauline Carter. The default choice is
- "F6 Employee Current Hours" which again is exactly what we need so just press
- enter and continue doing the hours entry as per the previous example for
- Janette Anderson, then on to the next employee, etc.
-
- Hours entry is quite quick, and F8 pre-calculation is not needed except in
- special circumstances where you are not sure of the effect of what you have
- entered. Providing the two switches, COMPUTER CALC PAY = TRUE and COMPUTER
- CALC TAX = TRUE (you can think of TRUE / FALSE fields as switches because they
- act like a light switch, the light is either turned on - TRUE - or turned off -
- FALSE) then all calculations will be done for you automatically in the pay
- cycle. These two switches are there to allow you maximum flexibility. There may
- be special circumstances where you wish to force through a particular pay or
- tax amount that is different to what would be calculated so you can turn either
- or both of them off when necessary to do this.
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