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Setting Up PR Crafts

PR Crafts sets the craft code, description, address, add-ons, deductions and liabilities, holidays, and related classes. Use one craft per union when you need separate union reporting. Non-union firms may still use crafts and classes for standard or prevailing-wage rates.

Hierarchy (lowest to highest override): Craft → Class → Craft Template → Craft Class Template.

Before you start​

  • AP vendors exist when craft deductions/liabilities auto-update AP.
  • PR Overtime Schedule exists when the employee OT option is Craft.
  • Deduction/Liability and add-on earnings codes exist for craft-level rates.
  • Know whether this craft uses capped codes / prevailing-wage packaging.

Steps​

Craft header​

  1. Open PR Crafts.
  2. Enter Craft, Description, and address fields as needed.
  3. Set Vendor (AP vendor for craft Ded/Liab, usually the union). Leave blank to use the vendor on each Ded/Liab code. Vendor matters only when automatic AP updates are enabled on those codes.
  4. Set Effective Date: new add-on and Ded/Liab rates apply on or after this date; earlier timecards keep old rates.
  5. Set Report Type for grouping on reports.
  6. Set OT Schedule (F4) when employees use Craft as their OT option.
  7. Enter locale-specific fields when required (examples: AU Super Weekly Min, NY CHAMP Trade Seq#).

Add-ons, deductions, liabilities, holidays, classes​

  1. Maintain craft-level add-on earnings, deductions (including pre-tax), liabilities, and holiday calendars on the craft.
  2. Define related classes in PR Craft Classes (one class per distinct pay rate).

Capped codes / prevailing wage​

  1. When the craft uses a maximum hourly benefits package:
    • Create capped earnings as H-Rate per hour and add them to classes at the highest rate.
    • Capped Basis includes regular and capped earnings plus employer liabilities (H-Rate or A-Amount with category C/E/A).
    • Job-specific basis lives on PR Craft Templates (adds to craft; duplicates count once).
    • Capped Codes sequence reduces adjustable codes to zero (craft-based codes only).

Reciprocal agreements and holiday-week OT​

  1. Reciprocal agreements are job-related and set on Craft Templates: None, Partial, or Override.
  2. Holiday-week OT: enable Use Holiday OT Override and set Max Regular Hours Per Week. The special holiday rate applies only when the employee works the actual holiday.

Notes​