Incorrect Payroll Results When Both PI And Element Assignment By Payee Has Same Element And Has Retro (Doc ID 2985049.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2023

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Symptoms

Incorrect Payroll results when both PI and Element Assignment by Payee has same element and has retro.

Ex: In Calendar 1 Employee A has Deduction-A positive Input for -713.59 and on Element Assignment by Payee 719.91000
and the results are
Calendar 1:
Deduction-A  719.91000 Instance 1
Deduction-A -713.59000 Instance 2

Calendar 2: In Calendar 2 there is a retro backdated and the results are now modified as below which is incorrect
 Deduction-A -713.59000 Instance 1
 Deduction-A -713.59000 Instance 2

Steps to reproduce the issue:
1. Ensure that the element is added in retro process overrides with Retro calc option set to "Do not recalculate".
2. Enter PI with negative amount (Navigation: Global Payroll Absence management > Payee Data > Assign Earnings and Deductions> One Time Positive Input)
3. Enter Element Assignment by Payee to the employee for the same period (Navigation: Global Payroll Absence management > Payee Data > Assign Earnings and Deductions> Element Assignment by Payee)
4. Process payroll, Results V1R1 captured shows the two elements processed (Navigation: Global Payroll Absence management > Absence and Payroll Processing > Calculate Absence and Payroll)
5. There is retro to the employee and the V1R2 results are incorrect. The Element assignment by payee element is overridden to Positive input amount. (Navigation: Global Payroll Absence management > Absence and Payroll Processing > Review Absence/Payroll Information > Results by Calendar Group)

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