We have an employee with an F1 Visa (which payroll just learned of after 2 pay cycles).   I am wondering what is the best way to have the employee's FICA and Medicare not process.  I am thinking to disable those taxes on the PR13.7 for that employee.  Any thoughts or drawbacks to this solution   Any insight would be much appreciated!

Good Afternoon All,   We are starting to contemplate transitioning our position control from a one-to-one structure to a one-to-many structure and utilizing PA70 to track the Headcount and Total FTE.  Would anybody be willing to share how they utilize position control in Lawson  How is the Headcount/FTE Budget calculated to be loaded in Lawson  In talking with Finance they create the budget by calculating the annual salary plus cost of benefits (not necessarily the amount...

We've always just added records to the BS06.1 each year prior to OE and had one record per pay plan - we have groups on different OE dates and cycles. I was thinking more about this.  I think we should/could be adding one record each year and let the system calculate all cycles and dates with the calculate/add function. What do others do  Am I thinking correctly

Your votes to make this happen would be appreciated.   Enhancement Request - 29429 Lawson - BSI interface to simplify payment overrides......   I would like to see Lawson and BSI come up with a solution to better manage the API calls from Lawson Payroll to BSI for the catch-up provisions of benefit plans.  We have to maintain over 300 municipalities in several BSI  Group override codes due to age and benefit types - DC plans and HSA plans in particular.  My understan...

The newer HS23 and EMSS have options to change company name to Process level on the Main tab of the HS23.  What I've discovered is that on payments, it pulls from the employee's current process level.  It does not pull based on the PL that issued the check nor does it pull in the PL address. I'd like to see that option and functionality added, please. Thanks.

We just upgraded to v10 recently and are looking to implement multiple positions.  Currently, we allow 1 position per employee.  We are looking for guidance from organizations who already have this in place who can provide us with considerations in setting it up.  Specifically, any lessons learned, things to watch out for or things you would have done differently in the implementation phase.  Thanks in advance.

Is anyone aware of any “add on” software that could be used for additional hierarchy functionality within Lawson I know we were going to gain this additional functionality within LTM; but since that project was placed on hold at our organization; wasn't sure if there were other ther vendors in this area that have something that could be used as an interim solution  Or someone has come up with a creative solution within S3.   Example of additional functionali...

We want to use LP130 to create LP payouts. I ran the LP140 and then the LP130. It ran okay in report mode but will not run in update mode. The job goes into 'needs recovery' with the error message - 'stopped on Exit23'. Have you encountered this What was your fix

We are seeing the error message 'Warning-tax errors; partial tax update; use PR13.8; OK to Cont' when we make a change on PR13 (US Tax withholding) or PA52 (Indiv. Action).  We see in PR13.8 the message 'BSI Warnings found; review BSI Tax Locator messages'.    However, when we look in BSI Message viewer, there are NO error messages for the employee that we are updating, yet we always get that message when updating that employee.   Is there somewh...

Is there a way to clean up retroactive history that appears on pa113  Before we didn't knew that flagging down the retroactive history option could actually not create any history. We are now using the flag down option but for initial years there are certain employees with about 300 pages of history and its hard to look into the required info. So how can we clean that up Any suggestions   Thanks! 

Does anyone have any experience or recommendations with regard to setting up a separate plan in Lawson for Catch-Up Contributions  We are currently administering catch-ups in BSI.  But we are finding that BSI enforces the combined limit of $55k even for our catch up population.  So we are considering setting up a separate Catch-up plan, not subject to the same limit schedule.  This will hopefully allow our participants to reach the $55k limit plus the $6k catch-up. ...

We are interested in others who are paying transcriptionists (or other similar type work) based on lines transcribed.  Particularly interested in paycode setup and FLSA OT calculation setup. Thank you in advance! Deanna

Has anyone experienced long run times of PR113  We are experiencing run times of almost 4 hours.  Interested in others run times or if anyone has been able to find ways to speed it up.

We have a set of doctors that have one job as a regular employee and then a second job as a 'moonlighter' under a different EIN number. We currently have them in the system twice with two IDs each under the respective company, but this throws off reporting and causes other issues.  So we want to go to a singular ID with multiple positions, but Payroll wants to have 2 different W4s. In order to allow for a W4 under each process level so that each W4 will allow for a different setup under t...

Does anyone allow employees to enroll past their 30 day deadline, but instead put them in POST tax benefits for medical, dental, vision instead of the pre-tax benefits for the remainder of the year  This has been brought up as an option someone had at a former employer, but we weren't sure how 'popular' this is.  We normally say no if they are past their deadline. 

Is it possible to set up a BSI payment override for HSA deductions We followed all of the normal steps and double-checked our work but can't get the deduction to take. We have both employer and employee contributions and want to combine them up to the limit. If we code the deduction as a (20) Single on PR05 it won't even take anything without the override. Appreciate any ideas, BSI is not responding to our request for assistance.

I'm digging through HRHISTORY to query for USER_ID / EMPLOYEE ID to create a list of EMPLOYEE that have changed their ADDRESS recently. Do you have any experience with that So the query should look something like this: select FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, ADDR1, ADDR2, ADDR3, ADDR4, CITY, STATE, ZIP, convert(datetime,DATE_STAMP,101) AS DATE_STAMP from HRHISTORY right join EMPLOYEE on EMPLOYEE.EMPLOYEE = HRHISTORY.EMPLOYEE where convert(datetime,DATE_STAMP,101) > {current time - 14 days}

I wanted to find out how others are tracking New Jersey Equal Pay Act Data. We were asked by HR to track education years of service, Educational degree and work experience date.  For education years of service our facility is giving the employee a number such as 12 if you have a high school diploma or equivalent. 14 if you have a bachelors degree. Date field for Work experience. I am now tracking these items using HR11 user fields. PA20 would not work for us because it does not track...

I really need help from those who do business in Connecticut.   These are the valid marital status codes from the CT W4 form.  the values on PR13 in Lawson are numeric and don't seem to align with the W4 info.  How does Lawson store the marital status election  

I am the IT Analyst that supports HR and Payroll and I need to create documentation for payroll adjustments for Lawson 10. Does anyone have any documentation on payroll adjustments. The user guide is not helpful.   Thanks

Does anyone have a simple way to identify when nested groups exist within an HR55.3 definition   I want to run a simple SQL query to ID when one group is part of the definition of another group in order to identify how many iterations of the HR155 would need to be run to capture changes made to the nested group.   Thank you in advance!

Does anyone have a defined contribution plan built that calculates a percent of salary paid in the bi-weekly check based on years of service  It is not a match.  Something like this:   0-3 YOS: 1 4-5 YOS: 2 6-99 YOS: 5 I am drawing a blank on the proper coverage/contribution type combos. It is effective July 1, of course. no pressure

Hi - We decided for 2018 that we would start showing the company match on DC plans on our biweekly employee checks/vouchers.  So, we set it all up nicely except we missed the maximum dollar amount on the company match on BN19.3.  And, therefore, we missed the Balance Type & Balance Amount populating on the PR14.  We also found several instances of the same PR14 record for the match (same effective date, deduction, and no end date). We discovered all of&nbs...

I need to setup reciprocity taxes for employees in Lawson version 10 and we use BSI 10.0s. Does anyone have guidance on how to set this up

We are on revbn299-17B for our BN299. One of our companies attempted to upload their files to the IRS and is getting an error with the following element(s):  p4:CheckSumAugmentationNum. Any thoughts on how to correct that