Average Piece Rate Report

Update 7/30/15:  Added links to articles discussing the case from a two law firms in the second paragraph.

Last year we added a new report to calculate each employee’s average hourly piecework  rate of pay and apply that rate of pay to line items entered for breaks and other non-productive hourly pay types.  This report was added to help customers comply with California court rulings and guidance issued by the Labor Commissioner specifying that employees earning piecework wages must be compensated for non-productive time (regular breaks, heat illness prevention breaks, etc.) at their average hourly rate for piecework earnings.

As of July 2015, due to a state Supreme Court ruling, Washington state now requires the same type of calculation to pay employees for non-productive time.  This post contains updated instructions for using the Average Piece Rate Report to help current customers that may need to use this feature for the first time as well new customers that are getting started with our payroll system.

Note for Customers Using Spanish Check Stubs

Customers that are using Spanish Payroll Check Stubs may want to update the text that will be printed in place of the English headings Sick Hrs Accrued and Sick Hrs Available.

To edit this go to Payroll > Setup > Translations.  Select the Report Name PR.PrintPayrollChecks.

Scroll down and look for Text line Sick Hrs Accrued and Sick Hours Available. In some cases the program may have already added a line for the Spanish text, but the Translation field will be blank.  You can simply add the text you want to appear when Spanish checks are printed.

If lines for the Spanish text aren’t created scroll down to a blank line and add “Sick Hrs Accrued:”, select Spanish in the Language and enter the Translation.  Repeat for “Sick Hrs Available:”  See screen shots below.

If the translation text hasn’t been added before checks are printed, the lines will appear in English.