Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Date: 1 Sep 2016 21:23:06 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 4xvK87MWOKCirMGYim+kfAXzQ4q9K2S7ADNPxITkdq17AR56Uv Cancel-Lock: sha1:DxAXVRynCY2SQq3f6SSFufVJ6ZU= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:11906 On 2016-09-01, Paul Sture wrote: > On 2016-09-01, Bob Eager wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:23:03 -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote: >> >>> On 8/31/2016 21:04, Sylvia Else wrote: >>>> > echoes-queensland-health/7802944> >>>> >>>> >>>> I find these stuff-ups hard to fathom. Just how complicated is a >>>> payroll system? Yes, it deals with lots of transactions, but each one >>>> is surely straight-forward. >>> >>> They ARE straight-forward. >>> >>> Unless you have to provide for over-time rules, union rules, state laws >>> and rules. state tax laws and rules, FSMCA rules and laws, FRA rules and >>> laws, OSHA rules and laws, differing plant rules, customs, practices, >>> and traditions and the rest of a forbidding pile of minutia. Did I >>> mention GAAP? >> >> And constant changes from the government. >> > > Having worked on payroll, the yearly changes to tax and social > contributions seemed to be designed to break existing systems. It > didn't matter how well you had parameterised your payroll system to > minimise the impact of regulatory changes, the government would find a > way that forced you to change your code. Having worked on payroll, I completely agree. I suspect many (most?) employers have solved this by outsourcing it. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 25th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.