Seeking other GHR Benefits & GHR Payroll customers who have off-calendar year benefits plans to bounce some ideas off or garner support for an ER we've submitted...
We went live with GHR and GHR Payroll last July, and even prior to go-live we identified a loss of functionality that in S3 was called BS06 - basically this allowed us to manage a Payroll calendar year 1/1-12/31 and a Benefits calendar year that runs 4/1-3/31. We've had this incident opened since March 2021 but haven't received much traction. We recently opened Enhancement Request #86366 to capture this:
Summary: We need the functionality of the BS06 page from S3 in Global HR. Currently, Payroll and Benefits share the pay period dates within payment schedule in Global HR. The start and end dates within the pay period dates are referenced by payroll processing and cannot be modified to benefit dates that differ from payroll dates. Not having separate tables for Payroll and Benefits areas to manage separately causes many issues, manual work arounds and is a loss of functionality for S3 users who implement GHR Payroll and Benefits modules. The benefits module needs to reference paycheck dates to determine how many cycles are remaining because sometimes there is a difference in month between the pay period start/end dates and the pay check date.
This is located in the "PayPeriodDates" Business Class with the LPL "PayPeriodsBenefitsList".
Not having a separate table for Benefits to manage start and stop dates causes issues with retro deduction calculations and FSA enrollments/deductions.
-Retro deductions are not calculated correctly and causes manual audits and adjustments.
-FSA enrollments have incorrect benefits cycles remaining and must be manually audited and adjusted.
-Employees are unable to see the correct pay period deduction amount they chose during life events because deductions remaining is not calculated correctly depending on when an employee selects a change in FSA enrollment.
Work Around:-Manually audit retro deductions.
-FSA enrollments have incorrect benefits cycles remaining and must be manually audited and adjusted.
Proposed Solution:Create a solution for the Benefits administrators to be able to enter pay day start and end date that the benefits module references for enrollments.
