Is information available showing how BusinessWorks will reduce the 941 liability by amounts paid to employees under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave act?

Unfortunately, not at this time. Sage is closely monitoring government reporting and working with Aatrix on tax reports and any necessary changes. As information becomes available, we will be sending out notifications and alerts to our customers through Sage City. To make sure you are set up to receive the alerts, please refer to our Knowledge Base (www.SageKB.com) article #95513 How can I get updates about product releases, alerts and notifications (95513)

Following your instructions to enter Emergency Paid Sick Leave, we have been manually zeroing out the Employer portion of Social Security and Medicare.  That is fine as long as they are on leave, but when they come back to work, BW calculates YTD and catches up with the missed amounts.  Normally this is a great feature but in this case it wipes out that manual adjustment.  Is there some way around this?

Yes.  In article #104058 “How to enter employee sick pay for Emergency Paid Sick Leave due to COVID-19” covers that there is a setting in PR, Taxes, Maintain Tax Tables.

1. Go to PR, Taxes, Maintain Tax Tables.
2. In the look up, select US for the Federal tables.
3. Click Allowances, Limits and Rates....
4. Deselect the 'Allow self adjusting option' for the appropriate taxes

Since you mentioned you are zeroing out both Social Security (OASDI) and Medicare, in our instructions we only discuss zeroing out the OASDI. Please check with your accountant if you have special instructions for your company to also zero out Medicare too. There is a setting for that as well in Maintain Tax Tables. Please feel free to article #104058 for full instructions.

Sincerely,

Coleen

How will this effect future calculations to employees that are continuing Emergency Family Medical Leave (daycare).?

If you change the setting, it does apply to future calculations as well.  The only issue is - the setting effects all payroll calculations.  You either have the setting on or your have the setting off - no option for special calculations or only for certain people or payroll, etc....  Once you change the setting, it should remain that way until the end of December.  If you change it....the next time you do payroll, it will try to catch up on taxes that you purposely zeroed out.  When you start the new year in January, determine if the setting still applies for your company for the new payroll year.

Sincerely,

Coleen

I can do steps 1-3 BUT when I get to Allowances, Limits and Rates there is no box to deselect.  Nowhere does it say "allow self adjusting option"  Help please!

Even Manual Check Calculations?  The people that are still out are still exempt from OASDI.

The Allow Self Adjusting option is in the Federal tax table. PR Taxes Maintain Tax Tables US

We currently have employer OASDI amounts overstated and I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to adjust this.  We were zeroing out the employer OASDI on FFCRA paid leave runs and everything was working out fine.  However, our payroll clerk overlooked checking the figures on a regular payroll run and BW self-adjusted the amounts on that payroll.  I have gone in and unchecked the self-adjust box for OASDI, so this shouldn't happen again.  Any suggestions on the easiest way to correct those overstated employer OASDI figures for each of the 3 employees affected?