Why not develop a new system to manage the process of tracking hours worked and overtime pay, while keeping the PAO and PAU staff on a monthly pay schedule?
It is not cost effective to have a separate time tracking system for the following reasons: • A monthly system may not satisfy FLSA and state of Indiana requirements for the payment of overtime in a timely manner. • The system will need to be built. In addition to the cost to actually build the system, there would be ongoing maintenance and support costs associated with running it. • It would take time to get the system up and running thereby delaying our compliance with DOL and FLSA regulations. • We would have to add 12 additional payrolls per year. The departments would have 12 additional payrolls to manage each year so the additional work would be shared with the departments. By using TIME, the departments have two separate processes merged into one which creates an efficiency for them. This also helps the departments reduce the risk of error. • Furthermore, there are additional tasks that would need to be handled centrally: Adding all the cutoffs to the pay calendar, running separ
