Payroll Clarity Project Support Sessions & Web Page Announcement

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Additional Payroll Clarity Project Support Sessions

If you still have questions or concerns about our transition to positive pay through the Payroll Clarity Project, please join one of our support sessions where you can meet with Payroll Clarity Project team members for assistance. In these sessions, you can have some one-on-one time to address specific concerns or questions about our new positive pay system or get help with logging into and navigating ADP, our new payroll processing system.

We invite you to join one of the following Zoom sessions at the time that best suits you: Continue reading

First Paycheck on Our Positive Pay System Incoming!

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Tomorrow, Friday, January 21, all ACPS employees will receive their first paycheck on our new biweekly schedule. This check will include pay for all hours worked from January 1-14, 2022.

You can review your paystub in our new payroll processing system, ADP. Paystubs were available for viewing beginning at noon today, but direct deposits will not be available until January 21. Continue reading

All Regular Employees to Receive a 4% Pay Increase

During the first school board meeting of the new year, held yesterday evening, Albemarle County School Board members voted unanimously to approve a recommendation from Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Matthew Haas, that all regular employees receive a 4% pay increase effective with the pay period that begins February 26, 2022. The first paycheck to reflect the increase will be on Friday, March 18, 2022. Continue reading

Kronos Timecard Approval Assistance

We made it to another Friday! Please don’t forget to approve this week’s timecard by the end of today. This will complete our first pay period on our new positive pay system.

If you’ve had trouble approving your timecard in the Kronos mobile app, please review our tips on how to approve timecards on iPhone and Android smartphones. This resource is available as a PDF and a PowerPoint file on our Payroll Clarity Project web page under “Kronos Approval Assistance.”

Register for ADP by Friday (& Other Payroll Clarity Project Updates)

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If you have not yet registered for ADP, please do so by this Friday, January 14. As a reminder, ADP is our new payroll system that is being implemented this month. Last week, you were sent an email from County_of_Albemarle.HR@adp.com containing a unique-to-you registration code that you will need to provide to create your account with ADP. If you received multiple emails from this address, please use the code in the most recent email. Continue reading

Remember to Approve Your Timecard by the End of the Day!

As a reminder, employee approval of timecards now needs to take place at the end of the last workday of each week. That means that you need to approve this week’s timecard today! (In case you missed this update, please reference the Coming Changes to Kronos post from December 17, which includes a short and informative screencast for each employee group.)

When approving your timecard, please make sure that Current Schedule Period is selected from the drop-down menu in the top-right corner (or Current Pay Period, if using the mobile app). The date range you need to approve time for this week is Sat 1/01 through Fri 1/07. Continue reading

Reminder: Register for ADP!

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Welcome back from winter break, ACPS! We hope you had a restful and relaxing break.

It’s time to register for ADP, our new payroll system. All employees should have received an email regarding registration earlier this week. Additionally, any employee who participates in one of our deferred compensation plans received an additional email with action needed. Please remember to look for these emails relating to the Payroll Clarity Project. Continue reading

Changes Coming to Kronos

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As we prepare for the upcoming winter break, we are also looking ahead to the new year, and with the new year comes our transition to positive pay through the Payroll Clarity Project. This transition brings with it a few slight changes in Kronos. The two most important changes apply to Kronos entries and the timecard approval timeline. The Payroll Clarity Project team has created a screencast for each employee group that explains these changes, along with a few new functions of Kronos you can expect in the new year: Continue reading

Update: Annual Leave Overages

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We previously announced that we temporarily disabled the conversion of annual leave at or above 320 hours that normally occurs at the end of an employee’s birth month through December 31, 2021. Due to the difficulty 12-month employees may have had in taking time off this past year, we will be extending this suspension again through August 31, 2022. Continue reading