When processing the above program I received two error messages 1. Completion date / / is invalid 2. Course NAME is not in effect In table PATRACKDTL effective date = 1/1/2000 end date 1/1/1753 In table PACOURCE effective date = 1/1/2000 end date = 1/1/2020 format in TRNLOAD date-completed - yyyymmdd Thanking you in advance for your help

We are setting up our HR structure and have many Process Levels (PL's) and depts. We have FOUR PL's that do not have a dept. I was curious to know if we should create depts for these for consistency. The HR folks indicate that these particular employees do not have a dept and therefore should just be shown under the process level. I know that if we do NOT add a dept to put them in, we will not be able to make DEPT a required field...short of that what other downfalls could we face if we ...

We are considering marking all fields in HR to store History. Is this something that could come back to bite us

Has anyone actually used PR296 to fulfill New Hire Reporting requirements If so, in what states, and under what media

Hi all, we are on 8.0.2x and I've been tasked to redo the PMTOUT file to add more information printed in the paycheck. They wanted me to redo the vacation(APL) balances in which they believe is not really reflecting the correct values when an employee changes vacation plan within the year. There are a lot of information that are required such as from the PRTIME, EMTATRNSUM and PAYDEDUCTN tables. All these tasked are now in place and we have tested it extensively without any problem at all...

Is anyone out there using Time Accrual and having success Our hospital has many different TA Plans and the process has been totally unmanageable. Does anyone have some experience and knowledge on an effective way to use this

The data entry clerk made a mistake and entered a personnel action of Hire with an effective date of 01/10/6206. Unfortunately she added this action as immediate, and now I am trying to terminate this Employee and am getting the position effect date is greater than the term date. Does anyone have a solution of how I can get the term date information into Lawson Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

We have not conquered how to deduct multiple advance pays within a single pay week. If we are advancing an employees pay they may receive up to 6 manual pay checks per week. The following week we are processing their time and entering in as one time deductions. In other systems we have used we have entered as one time deductions, netting the employees check down to zero. And in some cases the employee has gone into arrears. With Lawson, we have used the PR39 unsuccessfully. I...

We'd like to have an asterisk show on the pay stubs for all deductions that are tax exempt. The PMTOUT is not currently providing that. Is this possible to do with Lawson We'd also like to have a notation area that indicates what the asterisk is representing. Do we need a Cobol programmer for this Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks

Has anyone built an HR data mart based on the Lawson tool set We are interested in possibly building our own by extracting data from Lawson into a SQL Server cube and using Microsoft BI tools... has anyone taken this approach Thanks in advance

I am new to this site. Our company is currently setting up the Lawson system for benefits/payroll. Our short term disability benefit premium is calculated as follows: annual salary / 52 = weekly salary weekly salary * 60 = weekly benefit Weekly benefit /10 = calculation amount Calculation amount * .77 = monthly premium the calculations in Lawson are based on annual salary. Is there a way to get the premium to calculate based on the weekly benefit Or should I use one ...

Has anyone installed CTP 48414. We need to install this so that the PR160 will show the PTO balances on the checks/check stubs. It appears that this CTP fixes about 82 different things and I'm hoping BREAKS NONE. Any experience with this patch

Hello Anyone ever figure out if you can use the MS Add-ins to make changes on HR10 Thanks. Phil Simon

Hi, How can the user_id (ie NT0000013) be translated to the login username We'd like to be able to identify who made a change. Thanks!

We are new to the Lawson payroll. I'm looking for what others do for contingency plans. For example, what if an error happens and the day that you are to run payroll things go wrong. GSC takes a while, at times to help. Do others have back up plans on how to get people paid

I am implementing a new Applicant Tracking System and we are looking to write hired applicants DIRECTLY to the Applicant table. I am wondering if anyone has done this and if anyone has suggestions for me I know about PA531 but I want to script the whole thing so that the users do not have to run a bunch of different processes. They will need to run something from the ATS (hosted system) - then I want to have something setup to just write the information to PA31 automatically. T...

We are on LSF9.0.0.2 with 803 apps and TaxFactory 7.0k. Has anyone seen the errors we are getting on PA100 BEGIN: Job Submitted: Wed Jun 20 09:02:57 2007 Step 1: PA100 Started. . . . . .: Wed Jun 20 09:02:57 2007 Token Command. . . . . .: /lawson8/law/prod/obj/PA100.gnt Executable Command . . .: /lawson8/gen/bin/lacobrts lacobrts /lawson8/law/prod/obj/PA100.gnt prod jamonte PA100JJPRD 1 Process ID . . . . . . .: 13712 ...

We want to implement the Employee & Manager Self Service and had considered outside consulting vs Lawson. The cost is so high that we are considering the fact that we could hire someone to work full time for TWO years at a very good salary and still save money. Does anyone have advise for us in this regard Is it feasible that we could find a proprietary consultant that would want to do this for us at a lower cost It this a complicated implementation Would the fact that we will h...

We are currently in the process of changing all of our current departments and cost centers to new numbers. We have been able to change all of our employees' primary positions. I am now trying to change information for users with multiple positions with a PA513. I try to perform a change to change the positions,but am receiving the error message 'position level does not exist.' Do I need to perform the PA513 in multiple steps-- the first being to end the current position and the second being to ...

We're trying to move our user profiles (basically all laua information, jobs, and printer defintions) from our production environment to our development environment. We've contacted GSC and they claim that they will not support us with anything that involves the GEN db. Can someone please guide us in the right direction Is there an easy way to do this Thanks much!

Hello Lawson Guru Community: We are changing health insurance vendors and I am going to be creating a new file to communicate enrollment to United Health Care. I was planning to use Crystal Reports and I was wondering if anyone is sending enrollments / terminations electronically to United HealthCare using Crystal Reports or another method that you would be willing to share. I can create the file but I hate to recreate the wheel. Shane

We are UNIX/8.0.3; How can I keep HR employees from seeing each other's HR information We currently don't use HR security levels or record level security so I'm not familiar with those settings. The HR users are in different security classes.

Hi, I am trying to do a crystal report with a balance ending of a certain transaction date. In the emtatrans file balances are not stored. In the emtatrnsum file there is a year and end elig balance field. I am trying to take the the 2006 balance then add/subtract the transactions from 1/1/07 through 7/6/07. Has anyone done a formula like this I can’t get anything to work. When I use the 2006 year from the emtatrnsum file it triples the entry. ...

I have an existing position that was once title Benefit Specialist and was set as salary. The current employee had agreed to go into an on-call status (hourly)until we can get the new candidate trained. Since then we have retitled the current position to be a Comp & Benefits Mgr and the status has changed to Salary and hired someone. Due to both employees working, one hourly and one salary, would I have to create another position code even though the employee is really replacing the one that had...

We initially set up our system wherein each employee had a unique position code. (one to one relationship).. We are being told by our Empl self service consultant that this is not a good setup and that we need to change this wherein there is position code that applies to more than one employee. Changing now is going to be a nightmare. Can anyone chime in on the pros and cons of our current process vs the new process that is being recommended. The Lawson implementation consultants a...