How to Find and Select Pay Agreements

To find and select pay agreements in the Select Agreements screen of the Back Pay Batch Wizard when processing an agreement Back Pay Batch, follow the procedure below.

1.	If you want to find a pay agreement or agreements by agreement name, key in an agreement name in the Agreement Name field. Note that you can use wildcards (%) to perform a partial match on the pay agreement name. For example, Agreement% will match agreement names such as Agreement – National Nursing or Agreement – Construction. While %Agreement will match pay agreement names such as National Nursing Agreement or Construction and Trades Agreement. Skip this step if you to find pay agreements regardless of the agreement name.
2.	In the Hierarchy Level field, select the agreement hierarchy level to which the pay agreements belong. For example, select Office if you want to find agreements that are assigned to the Office level of the agreement hierarchy only. Leave the default option of Any selected if you want to find agreements regardless of the agreement hierarchy level to which they belong.
3.	If you selected an option other than Any in the Hierarchy Level field, click the lookup button next to the Hierarchy Value field and use the Search Hierarchy dialog box to search for and select the hierarchy value that must apply to the pay agreement(s) you want to find. For example, if you selected Office in the Hierarchy Level field, use the Search Hierarchy dialog box to search for the agency office to which the pay agreement(s) apply. Skip this step if selected the default option of Any in the Hierarchy Level field or if you want to find agreements regardless of the applicable hierarchy value. If you selected a hierarchy value using the Search Hierarchy dialog box, the selected value is displayed in the Hierarchy Level field.
4.	Click Search. Applicable pay agreements matching your search criteria are listed at the bottom of the Select Agreements screen.
5.	Click the checkbox next to each pay agreement in the Pay Agreement List that you want to update in this back pay batch. Alternatively, if you want to update all pay agreements in the list, click the Select All checkbox. A checkmark appears next to each pay agreement you clicked or, if you clicked the Select All option, next to every pay agreement listed. Each pay agreement that displays a checkmark will be available in the Update Agreement Rates screen during the Rate Selection stage of the Back Pay batch process, thereby allowing you to update the rates of the selected pay agreements.