Run a Periodic Increment and Longevity Increase Projection Report to identify employees receiving a Periodic Increment on a mid-period date (any date other than the first day of the pay period). Then run the Flexible Employee Data Report to identify any mid-period PID employees who are also on a 24/7 schedule. Create Schedule Substitutions for the entire period to avoid an error.
Run the Preemptive Basic Data Check Report to identify employees with missing master data in order to eliminate errors during payroll processing. Deselect Bond Purchase (0103), Insurance Benefits (0168), and Work Tax Area (0208) infotypes before executing this report. The state of Washington does not use these infotypes.
Run a Time Transfer to ensure all manual CAT entries are transferred for your employees. Repeat Time Transfer, as necessary.
Process any pending offcycle-workbench entries. Payroll Day 0 is the Off-cycle Workbench cutoff. The Off-cycle Workbench will not be available again until payroll processing has completed (Payroll Day 4).
Create any necessary manual time and attendance entries. Ensure all leave is entered appropriately and hours are completed for part-time, hourly, and other applicable employees.
Remind employees and supervisors of approaching payroll cutoff. Employees should have all leave requests entered for the period and supervisors should finish processing leave requests accordingly.