Certified Payroll is a Metron time clock software solution that was developed for contractors with construction contracts that involve State and Federal Prevailing Wage laws.
A Prevailing Wage law applies to construction projects undertaken by a contractor or sub contractor and requires that the contractor or sub contractor pay the locally prevailing rate of wages to workers on the project. Prevailing wage rate requirements for Federal and Federally-Assisted Construction projects are governed at the Federal level by the Davis-Bacon Act. The contractor or sub contractor is mandated to submit weekly certified payroll reports beginning with the first week that the company worked on the project and for every week thereafter, until the company completed its work. Their ability to provide accurate weekly reports to the US Department of Labor is critical to their success.
The most common certified payroll reporting forms to use are the United States Department of Labor Form WH-347 - Payroll Certification and Form WH-348 - Statement of Compliance, however many states require the use of their own specialized form, which have been derived from these standard forms.
What does Metron's Certified Payroll software do?
Using Certified Payroll, your payroll department would first create a record for each employee that they want to track. All hourly employees can be setup, regardless of whether they have prevailing wage considerations. Next, your payroll department would setup the
Work Classes" and "Jobs" tables. These tables can easily be imported from almost any file. Remember, you have unlimited customer support to make this setup job easy, and it only need be done once. A very large company with, for example, 100 employees and thousands of Class and Job tables can be setup in 2 hours.
Each week your payroll department enters the times that are recorded on each employees' timecard or timesheet directly onto his time card record in Certified Payroll. As each work period is entered, certified payroll will handle the rounding and overtime computation and deduct time automatically for breaks and meals. Where a prevailing wage rate must be applied, easy tabs let you select the correct Class and Job codes.
Certified Payroll comes with 8 reports that provide each employee's hours information by Class, by Date or by Job. Years of information can be kept indefinitely for instant History reporting. Any report can be eMailed and/or exported to Excel.
Certified Payroll interfaces to most payroll software and payroll services.