Employee Assignments – Groups

An employee's pay group, request workflow group, schedule group, earning group, accrual group, and vehicle may be assigned on the Employee Maintenance – Employee Assignments - Groups page.

An employee must be assigned to a pay group for hours to calculate correctly and display on reports. If an employee is not assigned to a pay group, you will not be able to access the employee’s daily procedures pages in TimeStar™. If this situation arises in the system, you can go to either Employee Assignments – Group or go to Global Update – Employee Update and select the ‘Missing Pay Group’ option from the drop-down to add a pay group assignment to the employee.

If your company utilizes the request portion of TimeStar™, assign a Request Workflow Group to an employee. To assign a Request Workflow Group to an employee, follow these steps.

1.       Select the request workflow group to assign from the drop-down.

2.      Click the ‘Save’ button.

If your company utilizes the schedule portion of TimeStar™, assign a Schedule Group to an employee for rounding and attendance tracking purposes.  To assign a schedule group to an employee follow these steps.

1.       Select the schedule group to assign from the drop-down.

2.      Enter an effective date for assignment.

3.       Click the ‘Save’ button. 

An Accrual Group may be assigned if your company utilizes the accruals module of TimeStar™. To assign an accrual group follow these steps.

1.       Select the accrual group to assign from the drop-down.

2.      Click the ‘Save’ button.

A vehicle can be assigned if your company utilizes the mileage module of TimeStar™. To assign a vehicle follow these steps.

1.       Select the vehicle to assign from the drop-down.

2.      Click the ‘Save’ button.

NOTE - If an existing group assignment is present and no stop date is specified before a new assignment is made, the stop date for the previous assignment will be the day before the new assignment.