ASU's payroll troubles continue

Hundreds of Arizona State University employees were short of wages because of a glitch in the university's new time-management and payroll software, says East Valley Tribune.

This week marked the end of the second pay period handled through the new software program, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, which replaced ASU's previous payroll system on 2 July.

Since the new payroll program's debut at ASU, many workers in several departments, including campus police, have reported missing funds - some with half-pay or nothing at all.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is beginning a roll-out of the comprehensive national HR management information and payroll system, the successor of the Personnel, Payroll and Related Systems (PPARS) project, says Irish Medical Times.

The Human Resources Business Solutions (HRBS) project, as the HSE has called it, is a more ambitious HR system that can hold and track significantly more information than PPARS.

HRBS, like PPARS, is based on SAP software.

Online payroll provider SurePayroll announced today that it is offering an affordable online 401(k) program, Sure401k, to small business employers, says PR-GB.com

Sure401k will provide an online 401(k) plan for less than $85 a month, minus a one-time set-up fee, and is aimed at small businesses.

There are no minimum employee restrictions; businesses that are run exclusively by the owners, partners and spouses can implement an owner-only 401(k), or Solo(k) plan, for $12.50 a month.