Fields
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Period:
You would normally leave this field blank to apply the award rule on a daily basis. However, you can use it to define a period code to ensure that the award rule applies a period-based rule. For example, employees are entitled to an incentive payment if they work more than eight overtime hours per week. In this case, you would specify a weekly period code to ensure that PayGlobal looks at payments over the whole week, rather than just the current day.
Cost Centre calculation:
If an award rule's Action Clauses include creating allowance transactions, then this field determines how the cost centre field on those transactions is populated. Select from the following methods:
- None
Select None for no cost centre calculation.
- Fixed
Uses only the code specified in the Cost Centre field. You could use this option if you wanted the annual leave transaction to always debit a particular cost centre code. However, you would normally set this up at allowance level, rather than in an award rule.
- Default
Uses the cost centre defined in the Action Clauses allowances.
- PrevPayment
Creates allowance transactions based on existing transactions.
For example, 'Pay 1 per hour of Ordinary Time to Casual Loading' tells PayGlobal to use the cost centre from the previous transaction. (The cost centre for the casual loading transaction will use the cost centre for ordinary time).
Note: If an award rule cost centre calculation method is set to 'PrevPayment' and an associated allowance cost centre calculation is set to calculated, then PayGlobal ignores the calculated setting.
- Calculated
Determines the cost centre by using the cost centre logic in Company Settings. You can use ranking to determine where PayGlobal sources the transaction's cost centre from. For example, you can source a cost centre from entities such as Location, Position, Dim codes, Allowances or Employees. This functionality allows you to calculate the cost centre based on data stored with the transaction for the day.
Allow proportional costing:
Select Yes to split costing to different cost centres.
Cost Centre:
Cost centre for this award rule.
Placement scoring only:
If the award rule will be used for placement scoring, then select 'Yes'. This setting enables the scoring logic to quickly isolate the rules that need to be evaluated rather than checking the action clauses in all rules.
Important: You cannot change this value after you save the Award Rules record.
The option that you select for Placement scoring only controls the clauses that you can select on the Action Clauses tab.
See Example - Placement scoring only = Yes
Rate calculation:
If you want to override the standard rate, then use this field to determine the calculation method used for the award rule rate.
- None
No rate calculation.
- Default
Uses the rate logic from the allowance code.
- Fixed
Uses the value of the rate code specified in the employee's award. You would use this option for allowances that need to be paid at a specific rate that should not be overridden if a different rate code is specified in the timeband.
- PrevPayment
You would use this option with action clauses. For example, if you used Rate calculation = 'PrevPayment' and Action Clause = '1 per daily payment for {Ordinary} to {Penalty 20%}', then the rate would be the ordinary time payment rate.
- Calculated
Use this option to calculate a rate by specifying a formula, such as NlxRtMax(NlxRtPosition(),NlxRtLocation(),NlxRtDim1(),NlxRtDefaultCalc()) which applies the maximum rate based on either of the following:
- Position, location or Dim1 attached to the timeband
- Employee's default rate.
Factor calculation:
You would normally set this field to 'None'. It specifies the calculation method for the factor used in the award rule, which overrides the standard factor.
- None
Uses the factor specified in the allowance.
- PrevPayment
You would use this option with action clauses. For example, if you used Factor calculation = 'PrevPayment' and Action Clause = '1 per daily payment for {Ordinary} to {Penalty 20%}', then the factor would be the ordinary time payment factor.
- Calculated
You can use this option to specify a formula to ensure that the allowance uses a specific factor. This allows you to achieve the same result as using multiple allowance codes. For example:
- NlxFtCalculated({'0.20'}) forces the factor to be 0.20 only.
- NlxFtCalculated(NlxStdlfDouble(oEQ(NlxEmField('EmployeeStatusCode'),{'CASUAL'}),{'0.25'}, {'0.20'})) forces the factor to be 0.25 if the employee has Employee status = CASUAL, or 0.20 if Employee status is any other value.
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