WA state paid medical and family leave act-with both union and non-union EEs

[former_member317608]

We have both union and non-union employees in Washington State. With the new WA state Paid Family and Medical Leave Act that is in effect as of 1/1/2019, we are supposed to start withholding the premiums. However, we have both union and non-union employees and the union employees are under a CBA which was exempted from this requirement as it was last opened prior to Oct 19, 2017. How are we to configure our system to only withhold the premiums from the non-union workers in WA state? Is anyone else in the same situation as I am?

[former_member600041]

Hi

We are in a same situation, and we are using IT 235 for exempt employees,in our opinion this is best way so business users can control who to exempt or not with effective date.

But another issue : For retro worked hours from year 2018 also adding to gross base wage for PFML for Jan 2019 and calculating PFML deduction, any idea how to stop retro hours from prevoius year 2018

Thanks

Ali

[former_member63182]

Hi Teresa,

I actually found another solution in SAP. We can customize the PCR UMOT to define a different tax modifier for the WA Union employees and then use that tax modifier in the tax model for WA Unions and do not assign the WA FMLA tax types for that new identifier.

Thanks,

Mausumi

[former_member317608]

Thank you. I will explore this option as well. We should be able to use this since our union EEs are in specific subgroups.

Teresa

[former_member63182]

Hi Teresa,

We are also under the same situation and I am also looking for an answer. I am not sure if we will have to create new wage types for the Union employees and then assign the new WA FMLA tax types only to the tax combo that is applicable for Union wage types. I am also going to check infotype 0235 to see if we can manually exclude the union employees for these tax types.I will let you know if I can find a better solution for this.

Thank you!

Regards,

Mausumi