Piece Rate Pay

Ensure accurate payroll calculations for piece rate pay employees

In industries like manufacturing, agriculture, food production and transportation it is common to compensate employees based on productive outputs, or piece rate.

Piece-rate pay may sound simple, but recent legislation (CA AB 1513) has added new requirements that dramatically increase the complexity of calculating piece work rates.

ONEHCM uses flexible rules and real-time pay calculations to simplify piece rate pay while simultaneously satisfying all minimum wage and overtime requirements.

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Paying For Rest and Recovery Periods

Configure pay rate tables to automate the calculation of piece rate pay while simultaneously tracking productive vs. non-productive time. Set rules to automatically pay non-productive time or rest/recovery periods based on your policy or the applicable minimum wage in your jurisdiction.

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FLSA Overtime Premium Compliance

Use pay rules to automate compliance with FLSA guidelines. Easily calculate and track premium rates that are inclusive of all non-discretionary earnings like piece rate. Protect against class-action lawsuits and increase your employee’s satisfaction by clearly denoting all of their premium pay.

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Effectively Cover Minimum Wage

Automatically calculate any required minimum wage adjustments when piece rate pay / productive time produces a pay rate calculation lower than minimum wage. Set rules to automatically pay non-productive time or rest and recovery periods based on the applicable minimum wage in your jurisdiction.

Real-Time Pay Rules Automate Piece Rate Pay Calculations

ONEHCM real-time pay calculation engine simplifies the challenges of piece rate calculations.

Job Selection – Specify what Job the employee worked applying specific hourly or piece rates

Rest Breaks – Rest and Recovery periods can be entered manually or be automatically calculated by the system

Minimum Wage – Automatically calculate, denote and apply any required minimum wage adjustments when piece rate pay / productive time produces a rate lower than minimum wage.

Overtime Premium – Comply with FLSA premium pay guidelines calculate the overtime premium for all non-exempt workers.

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