Steps: Set Up Withholding Orders (CAN)
Review setup considerations for income withholding orders (IWOs).
You can use Workday-delivered rules to process these types of IWOs:
- Family maintenance.
- Federal tax levies and provincial tax levies.
- Garnishments.
- Wage assignment.
Based on provincial and federal law, Workday:
- Determines the amount to withhold from the employee’s disposable earnings, including arrears and any agency and employer fees.
- Applies withholding limits and sets priorities for what to withhold.
- Determines statutory rules to determine what to withhold for each order, when an employee has multiple orders and the amount to withhold exceeds the limit.
- Dynamically displays the required fields for each type of withholding order you record.
You can configure a withholding order to be tax deductible for most order types. You can run the
All Payroll Withholding Order Data
report to view the limits Workday applies on each type of withholding order.- Calculate payroll and review the results to ensure that Workday withholds the correct deduction and fee amounts.
- You can override the default processing order that Workday assigns according to federal and provincial rules.
- related action.
- You can view compliance updates (since 2014-08-01) for the withholding order type you select on thePayroll Compliance Updatestab on theView Payroll Withholding Order Datareport.