In its general sense, the term "labor distribution" refers to how payroll expenses have been or will be charged to specific cost centers. The University of Arkansas maintains payroll information for each employee for each payroll. Through the HRLY-TS and PSB applications we can determine what percentage or how many hours of an employee's salary or wages will be charged to a particular cost center. In addition to providing a mechanism for viewing such historical information, the LABOR application gives departments a way to correct mistakes in past payroll distributions for employees. LABOR DOES NOT ALLOW CHANGES TO FUTURE PAYROLL DISTRIBUTIONS. This is done via the PSB distribution (DIST) command for appointed employees, and through the hourly timesheets (HRLY-TS) module for hourly employees. In addition to this payroll distribution the system also maintains the title an employee is paid under and the type of compensation. Examples of compensation type are: SN - Salary, Nonclassified; AL - Annual Leave; and XC - extra compensation, credit.
Labor Distribution provides departmental users with detailed payroll data associated with their payroll charges through lists. The discussion of lists in the documentation is divided between the use of lists for accounting reconciliation (viewing payroll data) and the use of lists for the purpose of finding data that will be used in the initiation of retroactive adjustments. The facility through which retroactive redistribution of payroll charges can be effected is the PD (Payroll Distribution) command. LABOR uses the established TARGET routing for company cost centers to present retroactive payroll changes for on-line review. LABOR data is oriented by employee and by pay record and is associated with cost centers, not budgetary units. When you are working with departmental information, you will need to know cost centers and compensation types. LABOR data is also associated with specific pay dates. All of this related information--cost centers, compensation types (via association with account numbers), and pay dates--is shown on the DBR and the BIS DTAL screen; it is also readily available through the LABOR list commands.