Use this screen to enter employee garnishment data.

You can maintain multiple garnishments for one employee, using the same deduction code.

You also use this screen to assign a garnishment to an employee to be deducted from payroll. It is not necessary to set up this garnishment on the Manage Employee Deductions screen because the Compute Payroll process looks to this screen, along with the associated subtasks, to calculate the garnishment amount.

Before adding a new record, you must first complete the following screens:

• Set up the employee on the Manage Employee Information screen.
• Set up the employee on the Manage Employee Salary Information screen.
• Set up the employee on the Manage Employee Taxes screen so that the employee has been assigned a pay cycle.
• Set up the Manage Minimum Wage screen for any states from which you received garnishments for your employees.
• Set up the Manage Federal Tax Levy Exemptions screen if you plan to assign federal tax levies to your employees.
• Set up the Manage State Support Order Rules screen if you plan to assign support orders to your employees.
• Set up the remittance information on the Manage Garnishment Recipients screen.
• If you want to track your changes on this screen, you must select the Employee Garnishments check box in the Enable Audit File Tracking group box on the Configure Payroll Settings screen.

The Employee Gov't Mandated Orders functionality has been de-supported for Costpoint 7.0. If you are upgrading to Costpoint 7.0 from Costpoint 5.x or Costpoint 6.x, a conversion script automatically runs during installation to accomplish the following:

1. Generate a Manage Employee Garnishments parent record (EMPL_GRN) for each Employee Gov’t Mandated Orders record in the database.
2. Populate the EMPL_E_DED_GARN table with garnishment information so that the garnishment balance is correct when you close the payroll year.