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Best Practices: Managing employee contracts with irregular start or end dates

Sometimes contracts end mid-month and a new contract begins during the same month. Avoid confusing paycheck calculations by following these best practices for mid-month contract changes.

  • Payroll does not differentiate mid-month position changes for different contracts on the same job record.
  • Contract Details are associated with a Record Number in Job Data, not the position. 
  • If contract pay ends mid-month and new position data is entered for the new contract mid-month on the same job record, payroll will not use the position active at the time of the mid-month end date for the prior contract. Instead, it will post both contracts using the last position listed in Job Data for that pay period.
  • Account codes and the CU Boulder and UCCS FIN fringe rates will use the last position data for both contracts.
  • If an employee will be rehired to a new contract mid-pay period, use a different Record Number to rehire the employee.
  • Use a different position number to manage funding for multiple contracts with each having their own distributions.

Need extra help?

To access helpful HCM queries:

  • Log into the employee portal.
  • Open the CU Resources dropdown menu and click Business Tools.
  • Select the HCM tile and choose HCM Community Users from the drop-down menu.
  • Click the HCM WorkCenter tile.
  • Select the Resources tab and click the query you desire.

You can find contract resources on the HCM Contracts page.

As always, you can email hcm-community@cu.edu or System.HRGL.Team@cu.edu for additional help.

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