Position management and classification

• Multi-level organizational structure.
• Definition of employee grades with specification of minimum and maximum pay for budgeting purposes.
• Definition of occupations with link to the organizational structure and employee grades.
• Full time equivalent (FTE) and annual budget management based on occupation maximum count, minimum pay and maximum pay
• Full compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements including labor, social security, and income tax laws

Employee Appraisal Management

• Appraisal based on weighted core competencies defined to suite the type of business.
• Appraisal using core competency specific indicators with evaluation scale.
• Core competency consolidation into overall employee evaluation.
• Multiple appraisals per year.
• Appraisals include development action plan, promotion needs and training needs.
• Training needs integrated with training module.
• Department-based core competency and indicator definition.

Vacation Processing

• Compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements when processing vacation transactions.
• Accrual for each type of vacation to which an employee is entitled including partial accruals based on working days.
• Processing vacation accruals for special grade employees by specifying vacation entitlement on employee level.
• Processing vacation for each reported vacation type at the end of each effective pay period.
• Processing accruals and reported vacation before usages are applied to appropriate available balance.
• Ability to determine rules for the coverage of sick vacations exceeding the entitlement.
• Ability to modify vacation accruals, limits, and balances for employees who change their work schedules.

Benefits Administration

• Online web-based employee access to self-service, personal information and automated transaction processing.
• Determination of employee eligibility for entitlements, such as vacation entitlements.

Staff Training

• Define training subjects and course calendars.
• Define training needs on all organizational levels, occupations and individual level.
• System-generated training needs based on department and occupation training needs.
• System-generated employee training needs based on training evaluation.
• Comprehensive reporting on nominations, attendance frequency and evaluations.

Pay Processing

• Calculating gross and net pay, deductions, and employee / employer contributions on an effective pay period basis.
• Computing gross pay as the sum of each rate of pay times the number of units related to it, plus all appropriate allowances and / or other gross pay components.
• Compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements when processing transactions.
• Calculating pay at the end of each pay period after properly authorized inputs have been received from the time attendance module and after personnel action processing is completed.
• Processing prior-period, current-period and future-period pay actions based on effective dates.
• Processing current-period adjustments as an integral part of the payroll cycle, such as vacation balance adjustments.
• Making retroactive calculations, such as retroactive increases.
• Computing various types of pay entitlements, such as allowances and differentials.
• Computing pay for various types of employees, such as casual, laborer, trainees and full-time employees.
• Computing earning amounts for partial pay periods when entitlement dates do not coincide with pay period beginning and ending dates.
• Processing earnings adjustments on a begin-date / end-date basis by giving the ability to define periods for employee allowances and compute partial earnings according to the defined period.
• Computing differentials based on applicable hours that are certified by an approving official.
• Calculations of the allowances and deductions (as defined by law or regulation), allowances and deductions may be set as amounts or as percentage of pay.
• Calculating the following deduction types for each employee:
  
  • Mandatory deductions such as Social Security and Income Tax.
  • Voluntary deductions such as medical insurance.
• Providing the capabilities to process deductions that apply in various pay periods.
• Giving the ability to deduct some items in every period that is called recurring deductions, and others in selected pay periods only that is called non-recurring deductions.
• Adjusting taxable gross pay by deducting exemptions.
• Calculating indebtedness for vacation advances upon employee leave.
• Accommodating requests for wavier of collections for vacation advances by giving the ability to take future vacations even if the employee does not have enough balance.
• The ability to define city ledger on monthly basis.
• Maintaining each pay record by the pay period in which it was calculated and by the pay period to which it applies.
• Recording gross pay, deductions, and net pay and other generated information to update other systems such as the accounting system.
• The ability to pay indemnity amounts for the employee based on his / her service years.
• Making information available to other functions to generate internal and external payroll reports not created directly on the pay processing function.

Reporting, Reconciliation and Record Retention

• Providing for reporting, reconciling, and retaining records to accommodate the following requirements:
  
  • Report processing aspect accesses and formats data as required to satisfy regulatory, managerial, and accounting requirements.
  • Generation of multiple reports that span specific time periods.
  • Producing all vouchers and reports necessary to recognize payroll expenses and authorize related disbursements.
  • Generation of managerial reports used by human resources/payroll office staff members, as well as reports used by others such as supervisors.
  • The purpose of reconciliation is to compare and reconcile data between systems.
• Providing employees and managers self-service capabilities in obtaining information pertinent to their needs, employees have access to their personal data and managers have access to their organizational non-personal data through the web-based application.
• Reporting services comply with statutory and regulatory requirements, for example the system gives income tax and social security reports according to the country law.
• Maintaining the following information in accordance with the statute of limitations:
  
  • Pay history showing gross pay, deductions, and net pay for each pay period.
  • Time and attendance history showing attendance hours, overtime hours, and subtractive hours for each pay period.
  • Leave history showing starting balances, leave accruals, and leave usages and ending balances for each period.
• Providing the capability to generate routine human resources and payroll reports that are prescribed by the functional users. Also the system gives the ability to design custom reports to preview the data in a specific format.
• Producing employee earnings statements detailing the composition of gross pay by showing the allowances given to the employee, deductions, and net pay for the pay period and year to date.
• Producing managerial reports to facilitate monitoring of human resources costs leave authorization and personnel actions by staff member.
• Producing all reports and vouchers necessary to recognize payroll expenses, establish related receivables, and disburse all related payments. Also the system produces supporting detail registers or subsidiary ledgers for the generated vouchers.
• Providing for automatic data conversion and electronic transfer of required data to other systems by giving the ability to define external interfaces with any desired format and export data using a specific interface.
• Providing external reports that fulfill statutory and regulatory mandates, as well as management reporting requirements.
• Compliance with all statutes, regulations, and guidelines that apply to hardware, software, and telecommunications.
• Reconciliation disbursing data with payroll data to provide assurance that all disbursements authorized for payment by the payroll certifying officer were disbursed completely and accurately.
• Reconciliation of human resources data to provide assurance that all employees on the payroll are bona fide and that all earnings, entitlements, and benefits are being computed as authorized and recognized in the human resources system.
• Making health insurance enrollment data available to carriers through certain reports so that payroll and carrier records can be verified.
• Deriving summary totals of earnings, deductions, and contributions for control purposes.
• Providing for transfers for separating or transferring employees with the next regular payroll.
• Generating reports of pay and benefit transactions required by the agency core financial system.
• Notifying agency human resources and payroll office staff of incorrect or missing data at the end of payroll calculation process.
• Storing audit trail data that gives the ability to track user transactions in a specific period.
• Providing report for health deduction not taken.