Union & compliance
Union payroll that survives the audit — and the Tuesday deadline.
Ratecards by local and classification, fringes annualized per benefit, garnishments with running balances, and roughly 500 checks a week printed in-house at the contractor this was built for. The rates are already right before the run starts.
Rates that already know the local, the class, and the date.
Every union local, trade, and classification carries its own ratecard — base rate, each fringe, and the effective date it turns over. When a scale changes mid-period, you set the new effective date once; hours worked before it stay on the old rate, hours after it move to the new one. No spreadsheet of rates to hand-maintain per job.
Each classification also carries its workers'-comp class, so WC burden rides with the labor onto the right job instead of being trued up at month-end.
Fringes managed one benefit at a time.
Health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship, and working dues are each their own line with their own rate and basis — per hour, per hour worked, or a percentage. That per-benefit structure is what lets the system annualize the way CA public works now requires, and what makes the union benefit reports downstream reconcile without a second pass.
Multi-trade, multi-class crews without re-keying a rate.
A foreman's crew can span trades and classifications on one day. Timecards come in by job, phase, and workcode with RT, OT, and DT split out; the ratecard supplies every rate and fringe automatically. Payroll never re-types a wage or a fringe to build the check — the register below is the same data the field entered, priced.
| Employee | Class | RT | OT | Fringe | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. Alvarez | Drywall Finisher | 40 | 4 | $412.80 | $2,687.40 |
| D. Okafor | Lather | 40 | 0 | $376.00 | $2,214.00 |
| M. Reyes | Taper | 38 | 2 | $358.40 | $2,102.60 |
| J. Pham | Apprentice, 3rd period | 40 | 0 | $281.20 | $1,542.00 |
Catch it before 500 checks print.
Garnishments run with a live running balance — child support, levies, and orders draw down and stop themselves when the balance clears, so nobody over-withholds by a week. Advances and deductions carry the same way.
Before slips print, a preflight pass flags the exceptions — missing rates, negative net, a classification with no ratecard, an out-of-range fringe — while there is still time to fix them. Then the run prints in-house, roughly 500 checks a week in production at the reference contractor, including off-cycle handwrites for advances, bonuses, and final or layoff checks.
Union benefit reporting that ties back to the run.
The Union Report and the Export Union Benefit Summary come off the same posted payroll — hours and each fringe by local and classification, ready for the trust funds. Because the fringes were structured per benefit at the ratecard, the totals on the report are the totals that were withheld, not a re-derivation you have to defend.
Where the payroll-layer tools stop, the job cost begins.
A payroll-layer tool ends at the pay run: it cuts the check and hands you a register. This is where our job cost begins. The same posted payroll — wages, every fringe, and the WC and overhead burden — lands on the job by phase and workcode the night it posts, fully burdened. Nobody exports a file and reconciles it into a second system.
That is the whole argument for one system: see how burdened labor reaches the cost ledger, or read why one back office beats a stack.
Questions the payroll manager actually asks.
A scale changes mid-period. How are hours split across the old and new rate?
How are apprentice ratios and step-ups handled?
Do workers’-comp classes flow through to cost?
Can we run off-cycle handwrites — advances, bonuses, final checks?
What about ACA 1095-C reporting?
Do you handle multi-state tax tables?
Bring us your worst payroll week.
A multi-trade crew, a mid-period rate change, a garnishment, and a Tuesday deadline — we will run it on a walkthrough against your own locals and classifications.
45 minutes on your real workflows. See how pricing works.