When union employees work outside their home local, your fringe benefit setup needs to account for reciprocity rules—how much of the benefit package gets paid to the employee’s home union versus the jobsite’s union.
🏡 Simple Case: High Reciprocity
If the home union has high reciprocity, you're in luck. You can simply continue paying all benefits to the employee’s home union (e.g. IBEW 123). TradeSeal will record the job as usual, and no setup changes are required.
🧭 Mixed Reciprocity: Home vs. Away Union
Let’s say you have:
- John Doe, a member of IBEW 123 (home union)
- Assigned to work on Job 789, located in IBEW 456’s jurisdiction
If some benefits must be paid to IBEW 456, you can handle this using TradeSeal’s “Union No” field on the Jobs table:
✅ Step-by-step:
- Go to Data Manager → Jobs
- Locate Job 789
- Set Union No = IBEW 456
This tells TradeSeal:
Anyone working on this job must have some or all of their benefits sent to IBEW 456 instead of their home union.
⚙️ What Happens Next
Once this is set up:
- TradeSeal uses the IBEW 456 benefit rules (as configured in Data Manager → Benefits)
- Fringe credits and deductions will be calculated based on the job union, not the employee union
- This keeps your reports clean and compliant, even if reciprocity is partial or complex
🔧 Additional Tips
- Need to fine-tune which benefits go to away vs. home unions? Please contact our support team to request advanced configuration.