TIP of the DAY

March 12, 2009:

• The Benefits team has created 2 new job aids and a Webinar. They are located on the BEACON Help site.

• Creating an Adjustment Reason
• Administering Benefits While on LOA

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March 4, 2009:

• Clarification for TM300/TM310 from Don Childrey:

  A class was recently told by their instructor that "audit requirements" mandated that they account for 8 hours of time on a day if they were scheduled to work 8 hours that day.

  Please make sure all trainers know that the State of NC has defined its overtime period to be 7 days (the 28 day period is an approved "exception"). We do not calculate overtime on a daily basis (the State of California does, I'm told) therefore there is no requirement, audit or otherwise, that requires an employee to account for all "planned hours" on any single day. As long as 40 hours are accounted for in the 7 day overtime period, the employee has met their obligation for reporting. Understanding this is key to properly coding a number of tricky situations, including adverse weather, so we want to make sure that we are all telling users the same thing.