Time and Attendance (T&A) File

T&A reporting is the recording of employees’ time worked, leave used, and other compensation during a 2-week cycle. All data is recorded in a front-end system by the last day of the pay period and transmitted to NFC for processing in PPS. The transactions are edited in TIME. Those without errors are processed in PAYE; those that fail the edits are corrected by NFC, then processed in PAYE.

T&A data must be transmitted by the Tuesday following the close of the pay period unless otherwise instructed by NFC. All employees T&A reports can be sent in one transmission or multiple transmissions. Each transmission must include a JCL.

When files are transmitted, they must be in the correct format and include the valid values for the required fields to achieve successful transmission and processing. All instructions pertaining to T&A reporting and transmission can be found in Title I, Chapter 7, Time and Attendance Procedures.

The T&A file does not contain a header record.