<ASUCLA and Hastings, you can ignore this release, as it consists of
temporary program code related to the BX collective bargaining unit,
and you have no employees in that unit.>

Release 1544 provides a one-time program that will calculate lump sum
payments for BX/Academic Student Employees who do not have a
separation date prior to December 1st, 2003.  Criteria for qualifying
appointments are as follows:

- The appointment must have a title unit code of BX -or- one of these
   title codes:

  ('2270', '2271', '2272',
   '2273', '2302', '2303',
   '2312', '2313', '2330',
   '2331', '2340', '2341',
   '2520', '2521', '2854',
   '2855', '2862', '2863' )

- Furthermore, its begin date must be prior or equal to December 31st, 2003
- End date must be  December 1st, 2003 or later
- Percent full time must not be zero
- and it can not be without salary

The ASE employee will receive either $35 (if aggregate time is less than .25)
or $70, prorated across distribution FAUs.  FT transactions with DOS code
'LSN' will be written to separate files for each pay schedule type (MO, MA,
and BW), allowing you to include the lump sum amounts with the employees'
normal pay if you like.

Two reports will be produced:
- OT15441: a detailed report identifying employees receiving the lump sum
   payments, title code, fau(s) to be charged, and dollar amount(s).  You have
   a choice of sort sequences for this report: name order, or name within home
   department.
- OT15442: a warning and control report.

As usual, a costing transaction file also will be created.

IMPLEMENTATION
   This release is date-mandated, and the release letter says, "In order that
all eligible employees receive the BX lump payments at or close to the
same time, it is strongly encouraged that campuses process the FT pay
transactions in the compute with a normal pay cycle check date closes
to the end of January."  In other words, the target would be MO and MA
computes, and, for Davis, the B1 compute with check date of January 28th.

To implement, we'll need this information from you:

- An ok to install r1544.
- Your preference for the OT15441 report sequence, which we'll need to
   code in the spec card
- A default FAU to use if there is no distribution FAU available to charge.
   This is required and also goes in the spec card.
- The date when you'd like us to run one time program PPOT1544.
- The compute(s) in which you'd like the payments to be made.  This
   could be either all payments in one specific compute, or simply
   including the separate MO, MA, and BW transaction files in each
   corresponding compute.

If you're not certain about the dates yet, we'd appreciate receiving the
other information asap in advance so we can proceed with installing
the release.  Thanks!

   bvb