Systems and Methods for Collecting and Accruing Labor Activity Data Under Many-to-Many Employment Relation and with Distributed Access

摘要

A system and methods enable distributed users to have controlled and distributed access to labor data, and the labor data are produced as the results of monitoring and accruing labor activities with many-to-many employment relation. One method further comprises: (1) a method of importing data as the result of monitoring labor activities, and resolving the employment relation under which a labor activity is performed; (2) a method of accruing labor activities using input data according to the employment relation identified by method (1), and; (3) a method of enabling controlled access to labor and payroll data for distributed users. Labor monitoring software system (a) accrues labor activities from field-collected labor monitoring data, (b) identifies the employment relation, and (c) prepares payroll report based on the terms defined in the employment relation. Authorized users may access the data in raw or processed format from a variety of Internet-connected devices, including smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. The system may be used in a variety of applications in which an employee has multiple employers, and distributed access to labor data is needed.

主权项

1. A labor monitoring and payroll accounting method comprising the steps of:
using a system comprising one or more servers configured to register users, wherein users are employers, employees, and their trusted agents, registration including employment relations between employers and employees and additional information that facilitates payroll computation and other functions of the system; assigning by an employer one or more local identification records (LIRs) to each of his/her employees, an employee's LIR uniquely identifying an employee for a given employer at an instant of time; using a labor monitoring device (LMD) to monitor actual labor activities of an employee, the LMD containing one or more Device Identification Records (DIRs); associating by an employer to an employment relation R a pair of (LR, DR), wherein LR is a subset of LIRs assigned to the employee of employment relation R, DR is a subset of the DIRs of the LMDs that monitor the employee, and there is no other employment relation Rl such that LR ∩ LR′≠θ and DR ∩ DR′≠θ; sending by the employee to a LMD a LIR l, where l is one of his/her LIRs; sending to the system by the LMD data representing a measurement of labor activities by the employee, the LIR l received from the employee, and the LMD's DIR d; identifying by the system the employment relation R by searching for a (LR, DR) such that l ∈ LR and d ∈ DR; and accruing by the system labor data and preparing payroll reports based on the employment relation R identified by the system.