When we try to do anything in BSI our response time is about 6 minutes per screen. For example: Click on Modeling and then click on Payment Overrides and then click on 457F. It takes 6 minutes for the Plan/Earning Overrides for Group 457F screen to open up. Then click on New. It takes 6 minutes for the Plan/Earning Override Details screen to open up. Installing new bulletins takes all day.  We are on windows. We are remote hosted and have no response time issues with any other Lawson applicat...

Can someone tell me what file/s to look at that would hold by employee number mtd, qtd, and ytd totals by deduction  Thanks. Please email answer to tkahlgmrc.com

We are considering a Market Pay update to our payroll and are looking for information on how other Lawson users handle this process. Thank you Donna Shelton

We have multiple process levels in one HR company.  We will be adding several new process levels on January 1, 2014. The new process levels will be in a separate Processing Group.  Will we be able to run multiple PR140 jobs by Processing Group on the same server at the same time  We do not want to add additional HR companies.  If we can't run multiple PR140s concurrently we will look at other setup options. Thanks,

Does anyone know the remuneration code in Lawson that I can attach to a pay cummary group for an OJT program we have that is considered Section 132 working condition fringe benefit   I prefer to attach it to a remuneration code so that if the laws change, it will all be handled through BSI.  If there isn't one, I can set it up and exempt the taxes. Thanks in advance.

Has anyone had success uploading BN71 (COBRA benefits) using Add-ins   We've managed to upload the COBRA participants, but are having issues with uploading their benefits. All help appreciated in advance. Till later, Rick S.

We will be process payrolls for some of our affiliates.  Each affiliate will become a process level in our HR company.  Our current biweekly pay period begins on a Monday and ends on Sunday at midnight.   We have not determined if the affiliates should be moved to our biweekly pay period begin and end dates or if we have more flexibility if affiliates pay periods have a different begin and end day.  We would appreciate any comments on what setup has worked well or should have been done di...

I am trying to determine the best way to account for different Wellness Credits for different benefit plan years. Basically our employees are either eligible for the credit or they aren't. However they may not have been eligible in 2010, but are now eligible in 2011. We use the Lifestyles Credit flag by setting it to a '1' if they participate and it gives them the credit on their benefits. Everyone has to enroll in the program to get the credit. They can enroll one year and not the next ...

We have an employee who was setup with a 2nd position level for a different dept & job code than their primary and  it was effective for 5/12/13.  This employee worked in both their 1st & 2nd position levels this past pay period (5/12-25/13) however the payrate for the 2nd pos level is reflecting the 1st pos levels rate not the 2nd's. If I go directly to pr36 and enter a paycode and assign the 2nd pos levels job code the primary pay rate is pulled in not the 2nd level. It appears to be setup c...

We have to print about 1500 Bonus checks off-cycle. Last year when we did this we used normal payroll cycle processing. We had to remove all of the pr39 entries and then re-add them after the payroll was closed. We are wondering if this is best practice or if it would be possible to upload to PR80 via addins and just not bring in the OTD's. I'm going to keep looking but would like any opinions.

Hi, our Execs are reviewing our current Certification, Education and License (CEL) pay and I foresee changes. Based on what I have heard certain job codes in certain departments will be eligible for certain CEL. So, a job code that resides in multiple departments may only be eligible in one department. In addition the only hours that will be eligible will be worked hours so no PTO, Sick, Jury Duty or Bereavement will receive the additional pay. I wanted to throw this situation out there to see h...

I am new to Lawson S3, I have clarification about term Productline (Repository of metadata & Actual Data (is it right or wrong) then following terms. Environment Metadata Actual data (what they refer, user form data) Kindly provide brief answer. Thanks in Advance.

Hi All, We have a Personnel Action (PA52) that populates the PEM-BEN-DATE-x fields.  While doing some data auditing, we've found that this PA is allowing invalid dates to be updated into PAEMPLOYEE.  The dates are in the proper format, but with an incorrect year, like '02/01/1070'.  Trying to enter a similar date via HR11 throws an error because the date is prior to 1700. Shouldn't invalid dates cause the PA100 to throw an error Thoughts  Thanks.

Has anyone setup a LP plan that looks at an employee's last year of hours worked to determine if he/she qualifies to accrue. I.E.  An employee qualifies to enroll into the plan based off of employee status.  An allotment amount is given if the employee worked a minimum of 1600 hours the past year.  The annual allotment is given on an employees adjusted hire date. Any guidance/suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Cindy

Does anyone use the COBRA Tracking in Lawson  We would like a better system to track our COBRA participants and the monthly payments.  Any information you can give is greatly appreciated.

I updated a number of GL overrides on the BN20 for our benefit plans.  I ran the BN220 and it said I needed to run the BN105 to update my HL/PPO plan for 1/1/10.  However when I run it for that plan, I get the following error message.  HL PPO PPO Medical 01/01/10 GL Account Multiple date records exist for plan; cannot process I cannot see multiple dates for this particular group on the BN20 and have looked on the Lawson KB and found nothing about this message.  Any idea on what it...

I am trying to change some of the wording the benefit enrollment.  i have no problem changing the wording but I cannot seem to get the underline, bold, color to work.  Does anyone have an example of this.  It is in the benmsgs.xml.

Hello! My desire is to temporarily stop a garnishment for the summer. Can i just enter a Stop Date, and then remove it when i want it to resume, or do i need to enter a new Effective Date also thanks, Chris

The benefits team will begin offering deferred compensation 457-roth option. They setup an employee with the new deduction code using PR14.1. Payroll added another record using the PR05 screen. I want to report the employee deduction and amount but I am not really sure if I have to read the payment master file and the payment deduction file or the EMDEDMASTR file. Any help would be greatly appreciated

We updated PR16 on 05/03 effective 05/05 with wage increases and ran PR110 to update salaries.  Retroactive termination recieved effective 4/30 but cannot enter record due to error message 'Term date must be>= level 1 effective date of 5/05/2013'.  PA 13.2 record shows 5/5/2013 date for facility wage increases.  Cannot change or delete PA13.2 record for pay increase to enter retro term.  No personnel action to reverse.  Any assistance is greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

We here in NH cannot find overtime (OT) payments in our PRDISTRIB table.  We have no issues finding regular pay filtering via the DST_ACCOUNT attribute but this logic does not work for OT.  Yet we are seeing OT transactions in the table, PRTIME. Any helpful hints are appreciated. Jeff

Recently it was requested that we (IT) find an automated method to track and calculate overtime for employees in California who work 4-10 hour days. We currently have a separate pay plan and use PR132 to calculate the 1.5x OT for > than 8 hours a day, 1.5x OT for > than 40 hours a week, 2.0x OT for > than 12 hours a day and the 7 consecutive day rule of 1.5x regular rates for the first 8 house and 2x for any hours over 8. Can anyone share how they track a different work schedule in standard L...

Is there another data attribute in the S3 database that determines if an employee is active versus inactive  We are currently struggling with the attribute, EMP-STATUS, which appears to be more of a status type.  When you look at its definition, it appears to be truly payroll related. ST-STATUS looked promising but in our database, the value is always 0 for all employees, active or terminated. Jeff

Does anyone use Smart Notifications for HR activities We are on Windows platform, running Lawson 9.0.1.x (environment & apps) and are licensed for LBI, but do not presently use Smart Notifications. We'd like to find out how useful other organizations have found Smart Notifications to be, especially with regards to Human Resources (job/position changes, terminations, etc.) functions/activity. If anyone would be willing, please let us know, as we would like to discuss this topic with you. ...

Does anyone know of a data dictionary for the TA...... tables of S3.  Tables like TAEMPTRANS. Jeff