Labor Redistribution

Activities: 

  • Submit a completed Labor Redistribution form for non-grant/contract salary charges to the Payroll office for processing per the instructions on the form. Completed forms for redistribution of grant/contract salary charges should be submitted to Sponsored Program Administration (SPA).    
  • All forms should be accurate, and properly supported and approved in accordance with the form.  Every effort should be made to avoid requests for > 90 day waivers by processing timely. 
  • Labor redistribution requests should be reviewed and reconciled by the unit for accuracy following central processing.    

Timing:  Required to retroactively correct an erroneous labor distribution or retroactively redistribute labor charges to an alternate index as identified.

Contacts:

  • Payroll (General, Designated or Auxiliary Fund indexes)
  • Sponsored Program Administration (Grant/Contract indexes)
  • Controller's Office (inquires regarding > 90 day waiver justifications)

Resources: 

  • Cognos Reports
  • Banner Financial Management System (FMS) data

Template:  Bulk "Labor Redistribution" form #4139 can be obtained from Central Receiving at https://mailroom.wayne.edu/general-forms   

Process Review:  This process was reviewed in 2018.  The final re-engineered process flowchart is provided here