Union Payroll That Reads the CBA, Not a Spreadsheet
A collective bargaining agreement sets rates, dues, and fringe contributions by classification, local, and fund - and it changes. Union payroll on Fintra would compute pay from the CBA, withhold dues, remit fringe to the right benefit funds, and file the monthly reports from the same field hours that drive job cost.
Illustrative - product direction (roadmap)
The CBA as the source of truth
Union work is a rules engine wearing a payroll costume. The CBA sets a rate per classification and local, a dues checkoff, and fringe contributions split across health, pension, vacation, and training funds - and each fund wants its own monthly report on its own form. Do it by hand and every mid-period rate change is a landmine. Union payroll on Fintra would treat the CBA as structured data: rates, dues, and fringe applied automatically from the field hours, with the fund reports generated, not rebuilt.
What union payroll would do
- Compute pay by CBA rate, per classification and local
- Withhold dues checkoff and remit to the local
- Split fringe across health, pension, vacation, and training funds
- Generate the monthly benefit reports each fund requires
- Reprice cleanly when a CBA rate change takes effect mid-period
On the same ledger and evidence trail
Union payroll would ride the Fintra governed ledger like every other pay run: rates and fringe post to job cost against the right cost codes, remittances to each fund reconcile on the books, and the run is sealed to the recomputable evidence ledger. It would share the field hours and the classification logic with certified payroll and prevailing wage, so a union job on a prevailing-wage contract is one reconciled record, not three tools disagreeing.
Where this is today
Frequently asked questions
What is union payroll?
Union payroll pays workers by the rates in a collective bargaining agreement, withholds and remits dues, splits fringe contributions across benefit funds like health, pension, and training, and files the monthly reports each fund requires - all by classification and local.
Does Fintra do union payroll today?
No. Union payroll with CBA rate tables, dues checkoff, multi-fund fringe remittance, and per-fund reporting is on the roadmap. The governed ledger, pay-run evidence sealing, and payroll anomaly detection it would build on are live today.
How would it handle CBA rate changes?
The design treats the CBA as structured data, so when a rate change takes effect it reprices the affected hours and adjusts dues and fringe across the fund reports at once, rather than a bookkeeper editing formulas by hand.
Would union and prevailing wage work together?
Yes - both would share the same field hours and classification logic on one ledger, so a union job on a prevailing-wage contract stays a single reconciled record instead of separate tools that disagree.
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