USW Union Dues Calculation

Our company is implementing Lawson Payroll version 10 and struggling with setting up the complex union dues calculation and figuring out how to meet their reporting requirements for the USW (United Steel Workers). We know we need to use the Custom Calc feature on PR05 and routine PRUEDED. The point we are struggling with is how to identify lump sum payouts, separate checks, plus the reporting needs for the USW.

Anyone accomplish this task and willing to share their approach?

Thanks, Gary

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d-wilcox

We struggled with it 15 years ago and have been calculating it outside of Lawson and then uploading it through Add-Ins.

d-wilcox

Let me know if you find a solution.

unknown

Hi Carmen! Thank you for your reply. We eventually did set the PR05 for the union dues deduction to the custom calculation option, created a pay class for eligible pay, and added custom 4GL COBOL code to PRUEDED (which is where PR140 looks if the deduction code is set to custom calculation) to handle calculating the dues. We wrote a crystal report for the USW.

Hope you have a wonderful Easter! We got our 1095Cs and EEO-1 sent to CA this week, so we are very happy

d-wilcox

Coding is way over my head. Glad you got everything out. I think we calculated the hours wrong but it is done. I would have to hire someone to code this deduction so I guess we will keep it as is.

unknown

Carmen, if you haven't got IT people there who can help you, you are better off keeping it on a spreadsheet. You would need someone to code it for you, test with you, and also maintain it if the formula, or PR140, ever changes. Excel is a good tool that everyone knows how to use, and it is easy to upload the deduction amounts to PR14 with add-ins!

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