Summary

This form describes where the back pay transaction was sourced from and how the proposed back pay amount was calculated. It allows the proposed back pay transaction to be manually edited in case the automatic calculations are not suitable.

Note: Most of the fields on this form are grouped into four columns.

Field Name

Original Transaction

This column details the field values of the original historical allowance transaction that has been selected for back pay assessment.

New Transaction

This column details the field values that have been calculated for a new transaction during the back pay generation process which uses the adjusted rates hierarchy.

Proposed Back Pay

This column details the actual back pay amount that has been calculated by PayGlobal and which is proposed to be paid in a pay transaction.

Actual Back Pay

This column details the final back pay values that will be placed in a pay sequence. Some proposed values are able to be manually overridden and the facility to do so is provided in this last column.

Pay Sequence

Pay sequence that original historical allowance was found in.

Pay sequence that back pay transaction was placed in.

Allowance code

Allowance code of original historical allowance.

Allowance code of original historical allowance.

Back pay allowance associated with allowance code of original historical allowance.

Same as proposed back pay allowance code, unless manually overridden.

Cost Centre Code

Cost centre code of original historical allowance.

If the cost centre method of the back form is "Original transaction", then the cost centre code of original historical allowance unless it is expired then use the employee’s current cost centre.

If the cost centre method of the back form is "Current cost centre", then use the employee’s current cost centre.

Same as New Transaction cost centre.

Same as Proposed back pay cost centre unless manually overridden.

Rate code

Rate code of original historical allowance.

Rate code of original historical allowance.

First override rate code, unless back pay allowance has an override rate.

As proposed back pay rate code.

Source rate code

Source rate code of original historical allowance.

Source rate code of original historical allowance.

First override rate code, unless back pay allowance has an override rate.

As proposed back pay source rate code.

Award code

Award code of original historical allowance.

Award code of original historical allowance.

Employee current award code.

As proposed back pay award code.

Source award code

Source award code of original historical allowance.

Source award code of original historical allowance.

Employee current award code.

As proposed back pay source award code.

Rate amount source

Rate amount source of original historical allowance rate amount found in the rates hierarchy.

Rate amount source of new rate amount found in the rates hierarchy when preparing a back pay.

Back pay.

Back pay.

Quantity

Quantity of original historical allowance.

Quantity of original historical allowance.

Quantity of original historical allowance.

As proposed quantity, unless manually overridden.

Rate amount

Rate amount of original historical allowance.

New rate amount found in the rates hierarchy when preparing a back pay.

The difference between the new rate amount and the original rate amount i.e. back pay rate amount.

As proposed rate amount, unless manually overridden.

Factor

Factor of original historical allowance.

Factor of original historical allowance.

Factor of original historical allowance.

As proposed factor.

Total amount

Total amount of original historical allowance.

New total amount calculated based on the new rate amount found above.

Proposed total amount to be back paid, using the proposed rate amount * proposed quantity * proposed factor.

As proposed total amount, unless manually overridden.

Recalculate

Recalculate flag value of original historical allowance.

Recalculate flag value of original historical allowance.

Always set to Yes.

Originally set to Yes. If back pay total amount is changed, then this will be automatically set to No.

Other Fields

Rate amount warning:

Displays any warnings regarding the calculation of the transaction's rate amount.

Other warnings:

Displays any other warnings.

Transaction text:

Free text field for notes about the back pay transaction.

Include in back pay:

Controls whether the transaction is going to be placed in a pay sequence. The default value of this field after back pay preparation is set to Yes if there is a non-zero back pay total amount present, otherwise it is set to No if the back pay total amount is zero.

See also

See the Back Pay manual for detailed procedures.