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Use the Edit Employee Departments dialog to do the following:

• Select at least one Active department for the current employee. Marking a department as active enables data entry in that department for the employee in both the Employees window and in payroll check entry.
• Select an active department as the employee's Home department. The home department is used in printing checks and reports when a departmental sort order is selected. (If you leave the Edit Employee Departments dialog without choosing a home department, the application automatically selects the first active department as the employee's home department.)
• (Optional) For each active department, choose an Employee Template to assign to the employee.

Employees window. Choose Setup > Employees or click the Employees icon on the shortcut bar. In the Employees window, choose the General tab. Highlight the employee in the listview pane at the top of the dialog, click the Edit button to access the fields for the selected employee, and then click the Edit Depts button.

Employee Information dialog. Choose Tasks > Payroll Check Entry or click the Payroll Check Entry icon on the shortcut bar. In the Payroll Check Entry window, select an employee, choose Edit > Edit Employee or choose Edit Employee from the F3 or right-click context menu. In the Employee Information dialog, choose the General tab and click the Edit Depts button.

Special information

• Overview of employee setup
• You can choose Payroll Departments from the Setup menu to create a new department(s) for the active client.
• Each employee must be assigned to (or marked as "active" in) at least one department. (For clients that do not track payroll by departments, a default department is set up automatically.)
• If the client's database includes just a single department, that department is automatically selected as both the active and home department.
• You do not need to set up a separate department for each state/locality where an employee works.
• The Earnings tab, Tax Withholdings & Deductions tab, and Other tab of the Employees window and Employee Information dialog are department-specific for each employee. They each include a Department listview field that contains all of the active departments for the employee. The default selection is the employee's home department, and the selection is persistent across these three tabs. The information on these three tabs automatically reflects default information from the department but may be overwritten as necessary for the selected employee.

Fields & buttons

Departments List

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