Written By Phil Vivirito
Bond Beebe
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Many times our audit findings reveal employees working in a covered class who are not being reported by the employer.  I was recently involved in a dispute with an employer regarding this issue.  In this particular audit, the Plan’s attorney was also involved.  The employer disputed the validity of the employees on our audit report; their position was that these employees were never assigned a covered job class code.  This is an extremely large employer with over 50 different job class listings.

During the course of the audit, the auditor called and informed me of this issue.  I instructed her to obtain a complete job class list and record each person’s job class.  Now we had an audit report that documented each employee’s job class.  We used the exact coding from the employer’s records so there is no confusion with wording.  As a matter of course, I always instruct our payroll auditors to use the exact coding or identification from the employer’s records.  This step strengthens our audit and makes it difficult for an employer to dispute job classes.

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