What is an enterprise agreement?
Generally speaking, an enterprise agreement is between one or more national system employers and their employees, as specified in the agreement. Enterprise agreements are negotiated by the parties through collective bargaining in good faith, primarily at the enterprise level. Under the Fair Work Act 2009, an enterprise can mean any kind of business, activity, project or undertaking.
EBAs in Workbench
Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBA’s) provide the rules for the conversion of the number of hours worked by an Employee into the number of hours paid plus allowances, and the associated Standard Rate for that paid time or allowance per Employee. The rules applied in EBA Profiles can be simple or complicated, often resulting in situations where there is an inevitable manual input to the system for some uncommon combinations and requirements. Workbench has the ability to group multiple profiles into EBA Schemes, which are then applied on a job-by-job basis.
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Once timesheets are submitted, the payroll officer can use the EBA Interpreter to generate overtime and allowances based on the original entries. This generation populates the Payroll area of Timesheet Administration, leaving the original lines intact. With the Control Parameter "Recost Time from EBA" set to Yes, the original transaction will be updated to reflect the total cost of the payroll section for that line. However, for EBA allowances that were given an "Activity" during setup, these lines will be added to the timesheet lines with their own cost and will not add cost to the original transaction line. After generation, it is the payroll officer's responsibility to review the outputs, making manual adjustments or additions as needed to ensure the values sent to the payroll software are accurate.
To decide whether to bill EBA generated Payroll transactions or not, use the attribute on the job's Charge Type called "Billing from EBA".
When this attribute is ticked:
- the EBA/Payroll transactions are displayed in Get Sales.
- The Price Code rules on the Job will be applied to the EBA/Payroll transactions to calculate the selling price.
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Any manual additions to timesheets will not be included in the payroll output until the EBA Interpreter is run over them, including leave. Running the interpreter multiple times will replace previously generated payroll lines with new ones. |
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