{"id":70201,"date":"2016-10-09T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-to-shift-to-biweekly-payroll\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T05:41:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T05:41:34","slug":"fort-lewis-college-to-shift-to-biweekly-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-to-shift-to-biweekly-payroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lewis College to shift to biweekly payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"The
The Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees has approved the idea of shifting the college to a biweekly payroll schedule, with the official policy scheduled for a vote at the board\u2019s December meeting.<\/span>Courtesy of Fort Lewis College<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

While it sounds bureaucratic,<\/p>\n

The college\u2019s Board of Trustees approved the concept at its meetings Thursday and Friday, with a formal policy to be introduced for approval at its December meeting.<\/p>\n

Student employees and part-time staff will make the change first, on Jan. 1. With a two-week lag, they will get their December paycheck on Jan. 13, and the first two weeks of January will be paid Jan. 27.<\/p>\n

The ASFLC (Associated Students of Fort Lewis College) asked for this change for student employees two years ago, FLC Comptroller Cheryl Wiescamp said.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents start at the beginning of school, which is, say Sept. 1,\u201d ASFLC President Conner Cafferty said, \u201cand they don\u2019t get paid until Oct. 15. And they\u2019re in the most expensive time of the year, when they have to pay tuition and buy books, get their living situation organized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the shift is because of changes in the Fair Labor Act and state reorganization of its payroll schedule, Wiescamp said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state as a whole will be going to biweekly on July 1 when it starts its new fiscal year,\u201d she said. \u201cIt will make many things in my job easier because I work on two schedules, the calendar year for W-2s and IRS purposes and our fiscal year (July 1-June 30).\u201d<\/p>\n

Because the college recognizes that employees often must make a mortgage or rent payment, a significant part of their budget, it will make available one-time no-interest loans to help cover the reduced first payment. The loan will be repaid through payroll deductions.<\/p>\n

Faculty and staff won\u2019t phase into the biweekly schedule until July 1, receiving their first paychecks July 28.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were starting from scratch, this is how we would do it,\u201d said Darren Mathews, director of Human Resources for the college. \u201cThis will allow us to make better use of software we already have, it will solve a lot of issues for my department, and it will increase our accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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