OSPS E-News ~ April Worker's Benefit Fund - FLSA Exempt

[Announcements from OSPS to the users of the Oregon State Payroll Application]

Happy May Pay Day,

April was a big month for Worker's Benefit Fund.  You may have noticed on today's paychecks that the WBF went up for full time employees about 32 cents above the April 1st assessment.  Please see our other E-News from April 8th for more details about that.

The other piece to the WBF change is for employees who are FLSA exempt and not eligible for overtime (or other compensation for additional hours worked).  These employees are now calculated at a flat rate of 174 hours at 1.6 cents or $2.78 per month.  This amount will not change unless an employee in this category has paid or unpaid leave time that drops their regular (RG*) hours below 87 hours in a month.  In other words if an employee takes a week's vacation in one month their WBF assessment will still be $2.78.

This change was implemented based on the following language under ORS 656 on how the WBF is to be assessed:
"If no tracking system is available to track all actual hours worked, use the flat-rate calculation with
no adjustment for overtime, leave, training, orientation, on-call or standby hours."

If you have any questions about this or anything else please contact our Help Desk at 503.378.6777 '0' or by e-mail osps.help at state.or.us<mailto:osps.help at state.or.us>.

Seth Lewis
Senior System Analyst
DAS/EGS/FBS/Oregon Statewide Payroll Services
503.373.0259 - direct
503.378.3518 - fax
seth.lewis at state.or.us<mailto:seth.lewis at state.or.us>
Visit Our Online Resource Center:  State of Oregon: Oregon Statewide Payroll Services<http://cms.oregon.egov.com/DAS/EGS/FBS/OSPS/Pages/index.aspx>
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