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Important Timesheet and Payroll Updates for Managers and Timekeepers
As of today, employees and managers are no longer able to make retroactive changes to timesheets. Only timekeepers will be able to make retroactive changes to timesheets.
Updated Job Aid: Termination
We have recently made an update to the Terminate Employee Job Aid to reflect that the Pay Through Date field should be the same as the Termination Effective date.
New Finance Reports
We have added four new finance reports that provide current month actuals, revenues and expenses (net) by driver worktag, obligations and more.
Recent Update to the Costing Allocation Job Aid
We've recently updated the Assign Costing Allocation job aid to provide more guidance on the costing allocation process, including sample scenarios and common errors and alerts.
Additional Step for Bargaining Acting Positions at UMCP and UMES
Due to updates agreed upon in the most recent MOU, Bargaining Acting positions receive an acting allowance effective 21 days after the employee is working in the position. When processing a change to an acting position within the bargaining unit at UMCP and UMES, the HR Analyst receives a Task to enter an acting allowance effective 21 days after the employee has been working in the acting position.
Best Practices for Submitting Cases
Did you know there are specific forms within ServiceNow to help you resolve common issues? Often when helping resolve your case, the support team will need key pieces of information.
Tips for Searching in Workday
Workday has powerful search capabilities to find what you need. However, there’s a few tricks to ensuring that your results get you the answers you’re looking for.
Important Guidance for New Hire Home Addresses
During the pre-hire stage, there is a step to enter either a home or work address. A home address must be entered and Home selected as the type. Entering only a work address and selecting Work as the type could result in payroll delays.
Important Guidance for Costing Allocations
Entering correct and complete Costing Allocations is a critical component to ensuring employee salaries and benefits are charged to the appropriate worktags and funding sources. Costing allocations are required for each job and earning. Costing allocations can not have overlapping start/end dates as well as any gaps between start/end dates. We’ve developed improved guidance (Guide to Costing Allocations in Workday) to help ensure this critical activity is executed accurately.
Updates to Time Tracking Reports
You asked and we listened! RPT3187 TIME Time Tracking Audit is now available to enable you to more easily audit time shifts, period schedules, time entries, and time approvals across your entire unit. Additionally, we’ve made changes to RPT1077 TIME Timesheets My Awaiting Approval enabling it for timekeeper use.