Re: Implementing Pay slips

[Jacques Le Roux]

Please use rather user ML for such questions see why here: 
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You will get a better support and it's more fair to share with everybody

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Thanks

Jacques

Le 04/09/2014 18:51, Chloé Desoutter a écrit :

Hello,

Here's a requirements map for implementing pay slips. Am I mistaken ? I seek 
guidance here.

We need two-columns accounting to keep accounting for various benefits and taxes that are due to the state & various external entities. This, ofbiz can do with a little configuration.

We need to compute, using business rules, the presence and rate of benefits and taxes, taken from the gross wage of the employee and as tax on this gross wage for the employing entity. The business rules involve Worker status (employee, managing employee, contractant, intern, etc.), worked days, gross income, employment duration. These business rules are not implemented yet but they could be managed as rulesets associated to worker categories.

We need to compute other elements aswell, such as employer sponsored days-off (in France we have a full five weeks of 'em per year) and equivalent money amount (days can't be cashed out but when employment comes to an end a certain amount of money is due based on the number of available days). This needs business rules aswell, based on the number of hours worked.

Then we need to generate pay slips. They are simply reports with specific formatting, tapping into a data source for a given actor and a given amount of money at a given point in time.

If we consider that paying a worker is an invoice (a "due" invoice) it's a pretty good model. An invoice has lines giving an amount, an emission date, a due date, an origin and a target (either of them being the Company entity).

Am I on the right path? Are there any ongoing efforts out there going in that 
direction?

The big challenge is to make the business rules manageable. The option I prefer is to forget that and just hook computing rules to the invoice "gross" amount to generate the miscellaneous lines and get the net amount due to the employee and to the various tax collectors. What do you people say?