My work has a cadence where we pay our shift workers on a fortnightly basis. Over the last few months, my project has implemented a new payroll system that will cut down the manual tasks and pay workers more accurately.
We have a deadline to get the workers paid two days after the end of the working fortnight, and it is not acceptable for the payroll to ever be delayed. This week, the payroll officer was off sick, not feeling the best after a COVID-19 vaccination. So, yours truly has had to step in to prepare the payroll, using the old payroll system, not the shiny new one.
Many manual tasks are associated with the old system, including the manual entry of pays into the payroll system. Add to that an email-based leave approval process, and you set for some long hours at the keyboard entering data. Once you have entered all the data, it needs to be reconciled, and again this is quite a manual, laborious task.
The new payroll system will be better integrated and less manually intensive. It will streamline the payroll process significantly and make it more accurate. With a more precise analysis of timesheets for award penalties, most workers will be happy to see a few extra bucks in their pay packet.
This week's pay run should be the last one with the old system, with us switching over to the new payroll system in July. It will be a good thing too. The workers won't thank you when you pay them on time, but they will let you know when you don't.
We have a deadline to get the workers paid two days after the end of the working fortnight, and it is not acceptable for the payroll to ever be delayed. This week, the payroll officer was off sick, not feeling the best after a COVID-19 vaccination. So, yours truly has had to step in to prepare the payroll, using the old payroll system, not the shiny new one.
Many manual tasks are associated with the old system, including the manual entry of pays into the payroll system. Add to that an email-based leave approval process, and you set for some long hours at the keyboard entering data. Once you have entered all the data, it needs to be reconciled, and again this is quite a manual, laborious task.
The new payroll system will be better integrated and less manually intensive. It will streamline the payroll process significantly and make it more accurate. With a more precise analysis of timesheets for award penalties, most workers will be happy to see a few extra bucks in their pay packet.
This week's pay run should be the last one with the old system, with us switching over to the new payroll system in July. It will be a good thing too. The workers won't thank you when you pay them on time, but they will let you know when you don't.
