Allowances

Employees can enter allowances in the My Allowances area in ESS. When an employee has entered allowances, they must submit them to their manager for approval.

After the manager approves allowances, Self-Service writes the allowances to specific CSV files for import into PayGlobal.

ESS uses the first non-closed (null or open) pay period in PayGlobal to process employee allowances. If no null or open pay periods exist, then ESS produces an error message.

When the manager attempts to process the allowance, ESS displays the message:
Unable to find an unclosed pay period for employee.

The file name uses the format:
[Period code]_[Payroll period end date]_tn(transaction).CSV

Note: If the CSV already exists with the same name, then it is appended — not overwritten.

For information about how to import the allowance file into PayGlobal, see Payroll.

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