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  3. Application Setup
  4. Pay Policies

    Pay policies are sets of rules that govern how employee hours are interpreted, including rounding of punches, overtime accrual, and holiday credit earnings, as well as the processing of time and attendance information through components like pay codes and work rules.

  5. Holiday Credit Rules Building Blocks

    The Holiday Credit Rules Building Blocks are used for defining and configuring holidays.

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      • Access Profiles

        How determine to the components that users can access and the types of functions that users can perform.

      • Authentication Upgrade

        About the upgrade to UKG Authentication.

      • Set up accruals

        Accruals are adjustments for revenues that have been earned but are not yet recorded in the accounts, and expenses that have been incurred but are not yet recorded in the accounts.

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      • Pay Policies

        Pay policies are sets of rules that govern how employee hours are interpreted, including rounding of punches, overtime accrual, and holiday credit earnings, as well as the processing of time and attendance information through components like pay codes and work rules.

        • Adjustment Rules

          Adjustment Rules can be used to adjust wages or pay bonuses based on time entered in the timecard.

        • Percent Allocation Rules

          Percent Allocation rules allocate employee time across multiple labor categories, based on a selection criterion (labor category, cost center, or pay code). The rules are based on a pre-defined percentage distribution.

        • Cascading Profiles

          Cascading profiles contain cascading policies, which define the paycodes used to trigger cascading accrual takings.

        • Cascading Policies

          Cascading policies define the pay codes used to trigger cascading accrual takings.

        • Holiday Profiles

          Holiday Profiles allow you to assign holidays, holiday credit rules, and zone rules to employees outside of pay rules and work rules.

        • Pay Rules

          Pay rules control how time and attendance information is processed for each employee.

        • Holiday Credit Rules

          Holiday credit rules specify the requirements for holiday credits and how holiday credits are calculated.

        • Holidays

          The Holidays page enables you to create a list of all the holidays used within your organization without regard to location, employees, and so forth.

        • Work Rules

          Work rules are combinations of work rule building blocks that apply specific pay rules to shifts. These rules determine how employee hours accrue. For details about the work rule building blocks, see Configure Work Rule building blocks.

        • Pay Rule Building Blocks

          Pay rule building blocks are constant within payroll policies; they are not shift-dependent. Pay rule building blocks include:

        • Holiday Credit Rules Building Blocks

          The Holiday Credit Rules Building Blocks are used for defining and configuring holidays.

          • Create Work History Qualifiers

            Work History Qualifiers use contributing shifts to create a set of conditions that an employee must meet before a holiday to be eligible for holiday credits.

          • Contributing Shifts

            Contributing Shifts are used in a Holiday Credit Rule to determine which shifts prior to a holiday will be used to calculate average shifts or average wages. To create a contributing shift:

        • Work Rule Building Blocks

          Work rule building blocks are sets of parameters that control time and attendance functions. A building block can be used in multiple work rules. For example, if different groups of employees share the same Punch Round rule, use the round rule in the work rule assigned to each group.

        • Paycodes

          Paycodes organize time or money that employees earn, and identify spans of time for payroll purposes.

        • Pay Policies Setup Reference

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    • HCM

      The Human Capital Management (HCM) component provides a comprehensive set of applications for managing all aspects of the employee life cycle — recruitment, benefits, compensation, payroll, HR, and more. Users can configure and personalize configuration of the application for an optimal user experience.

Holiday Credit Rules Building Blocks

The Holiday Credit Rules Building Blocks are used for defining and configuring holidays.

They consist of:

  • Create Work History Qualifiers
  • Contributing shifts

This help was built on 08/25/2025.