Payroll management method and apparatus

• US 20060122878A1
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Russell Bode
• Original Assignee: Russell Bode
• Inventors: Bode, Russell
• Granted Patent: US 8,260,703 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1057 Benefits or employee welfare, e.g. insurance, holiday or retirement packages
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/10 together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for costing a roster. The method includes preparing a roster in a roster preparing means of the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers, providing award information in a database of the apparatus for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, and calculating a roster wage cost in a processing means of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information. A respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

Claims

1. A method for use in an apparatus for costing a roster, the method comprising:

preparing a roster in a roster preparing means of the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

providing award information in a database of the apparatus for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster; and

calculating a roster wage cost in a processing means of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information;

wherein a respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

3. A computer program product directly loadable into the internal memory of a computer, comprising software code portions for performing the steps of the method of maintaining a payroll as claimed in claim 1 when said product is run on a computer.

4. A computer program product stored on a computer useable medium, comprising computer readable program means for causing a computer to perform the steps of the method of maintaining a payroll as claimed in claim 1.

5. A computer readable medium, having a program recorded thereon, wherein said program is for making a computer execute the method of maintaining a payroll as claimed in claim 1.

2. An apparatus for costing a roster, comprising:

roster preparation means, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

a database of award information for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster; and

processing means for calculating a roster wage cost that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information;

wherein a respective pay-rate for a respective worker may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.