Alice, I have worked in programming payroll processes, though not recently. At the time when I worked with this stuff, there was no industry or legal standard definition for how paid time off is accumulated; it all depends on the definition used by the particular business. I have not seen anything in the intervening years that suggests that any legal standard definition has been created.
If I were approaching this problem as a contractor, I'd start as you have, then write up the definition as I understood it based on what the data showed. I'd show that definition with examples using employee data to my immediate supervisor and ask for guidance in writing. If my supervisor couldn't make the decision or wouldn't put it in writing, I'd bump it up a level until I did get a decision. In all the work I did, it would be normal for me to run into definition problems of this sort, since my specialty was finding and resolving problems with payroll conversions.
Good luck. People care a lot about how this kind of problem gets resolved, and it's no fun being the person stuck with disentangling sloppy data processing.
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Date: 2013-10-03 03:27 pm (UTC)If I were approaching this problem as a contractor, I'd start as you have, then write up the definition as I understood it based on what the data showed. I'd show that definition with examples using employee data to my immediate supervisor and ask for guidance in writing. If my supervisor couldn't make the decision or wouldn't put it in writing, I'd bump it up a level until I did get a decision. In all the work I did, it would be normal for me to run into definition problems of this sort, since my specialty was finding and resolving problems with payroll conversions.
Good luck. People care a lot about how this kind of problem gets resolved, and it's no fun being the person stuck with disentangling sloppy data processing.