LP: Limiting usage of sick time per calendar year

Legacy Contributor

We are in process of setting up Sick Plans for our Seattle and Portland part-time employees based on the Sick Time ordinances using Lawson Absence Management.

It appears that the 'usage' needs to be limited to 72 hours for Seattle and 40 hours for Portland per calendar year. The Seattle ordinance has clear caps on use and carryover but no cap on accrual. It's looking like we need to cap the usage and yearly carryover.

Has anyone had to set up new plans recently for these two ordinances? And if so, how are you dealing with limiting the usage and not the accrual? I am very familiar with carryover but I’m not finding anywhere in the LP set up where I can limit the amount of days/hours that can be physically used during the calendar year.

Any information you can share would be appreciated.

g-martin

You are correct you cannot directly limit usage within LP. You could setup a structure so that hours accrue toward the next year and have the eligibility rule setup to only flip (occurance at bottom) hours from Accrued to Available once/yr. That could limit usage to what an EE accrued during the previous year. Or perhaps an easier route is to limit usage within a year in your time keeping system. This functionality would depend on what system you use. I'm finalizing our Portland, Seattle & you missed Jersey City, NJ. I will post what I've built in a couple of days.