Assign Allowances to Craft Class Templates

You can assign payroll allowances to a craft class template using the Allowance Earnings tab in PR Craft Class Templates.

Allowances enable you to pay an employee additional earnings based on a set time period. You will add allowances to PR Craft Class Templates to generate allowance amounts for a specific class of workers shared by one or more jobs.

For more information on allowances, see Allowances.

The following instructions detail how to assign allowances to a craft class template.

  1. In PR Craft Class Templates, select the Allowance Earnings tab.
  2. Enter the allowance name in the Allowance field. When entering an allowance, you can only enter one that has been set to have Craft Class Template as the rule set location. You can also press F4 for a list of valid craft class template allowances.
  3. Enter an earnings code in the Earn Code field. When entering an earnings code, you can only enter one that has a method of Allowance. You can also press F4 to select from a list of valid allowance earnings codes. You should specify an earnings code that is specific to the allowance you enter. The system does not report based on allowances, but on earnings. Therefore, if you use a generic earnings code for each allowance, the system will only display a lump sum amount for earnings and you will be unable to tell which allowances contributed to the amount (PR Employee Pay Seq Control, Earnings Code tab, for example).
  4. In the Rule Set field, enter the rule set that you want to use to determine how the allowance gets calculated. Press F4 for a list of rule sets.
  5. Enter a shift in the Shift Rate Override field if you want to specify a shift pay rate to use for this allowance. When you enter a shift here, the system will use this shift's rate regardless of the shift worked by the employee. When the employee works under multiple classes, shifts, and/or templates, the highest straight time rate for the shift applies. However, a higher rate for the employee in PR Employees (Hourly Rate field) will override any/all shift rates.

    If you leave this field blank, the system will use the straight time rate for the shift worked by the employee.

  6. Save the record as normal.