Configure a Canadian Remote Employee

Remote or virtual employees are authorized to work from home, or work remotely in a location that isn’t a company office.

Setting up a Canadian employee in Dayforce who works remotely involves the following steps:

1. Assign a virtual work assignment to the employee’s HR record in People.
2. In the Work > Work Assignments screen, you identify the work assignment as a remote position by selecting the Virtual checkbox in the Payroll section. See Add Job Work Assignments in the HR Administration Guide.
3. Also see Virtual Checkbox for Canadian Employees in the HR Administration Guide.
2. Determine how health taxes and taxes for provinces or territories are calculated for the virtual employee.
3. Taxes for a Canadian virtual employee are based on either the work location override setting of an employee's primary work assignment, or the employer's site address.
   • If you’re using an override location to calculate taxes, select the override location in the Work Location Override drop-down list in the employee’s HR record, in the Work > Work Assignments screen. See Employee Work Location Overrides.
   • If you’re using the employer’s site address to calculate taxes, review the site address set up for your organization at the on-site department level in Org Setup > Org Payroll Setup > Organization.
3. If you selected a work location override in the previous step, in System Admin > Client Properties, select the client property Calculate Canada Provincial and Health Tax for Virtual EE's using Work Location Only.
4. Selecting the client property enables Dayforce to calculate the employee taxes based on the override location.

For more information about how WCB contributions are calculated for Canadian virtual employees, see Configure WCB Contributions for Virtual Canadian Employees in the Dayforce Implementation Guide.