Does anyone have any experience with union deductions? My company hires all union employees (besides office staff) and they have a yearly set pay amount with a set list of certain deductions and contributions from the paycheck.
Usually we change the rates and deductions yearly, but this year we have some projects from last year that are getting wrapped up. Per union guidelines, you can leave 2022 rates/deductions/contributions for those projects for up to 24 months. At the same time you will have newer projects acquired in 2023 that will need to have the 2023 rates/deductions/contributions taken out.
I am newer to the company and new to union rules. Looking at how the 2022 deductions are setup it seems like it goes by gross pay and hours. Is there a limit to how many deductions you can enter? How do you keep the hours for the older projects separate from the newer projects and also, how will the deductions come from those hours? I am worried the total hours for everything will be deducted by both the new and old deductions and not get separated out correctly.
Would I need to cut two separate checks each payroll for employees that worked both new and old projects?
Any insight would be great, my CPA doesn't work with payroll or union so no help.
I attached a screenshot of our 2022 rates, deductions and contributions. There are roughly 10 deductions/contributions for 2022. I would need to add the 2023 rates and then 10 more deductions/contributions as well.
