Updates & Insights
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Workday Updates & Insights
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Managers will notice a slight change to how time approvals are delivered to them in Workday. Approvals will now be delivered as a notification prompting you to utilize the Review Time task instead of a task with the Approve and Send Back buttons.
- Employees with multiple positions and multiple time entry types will need assistance from their manager or timekeeper to record time for their manual entry position. We have a report to help you identify these individuals as well as clearer guidance on how to work with these employees to ensure their time gets recorded correctly.
- During the last pay period, many timekeepers reported they were unable to approve time for the employees they support. The team has identified the issue and corrected it.
- Some employees receive a payroll freeze notification after their time is approved in Workday. Have no fear, their time has been recorded and no additional action is needed.