The Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland requires a mandatory report - Earnings Hours and Employment Cost Survey (EHECS) every quarter. You run this report using the Submit Request window.

   To run the EHECS Report:

1. Enter IE EHECS Report in the name field.

2. Click in the parameters field and enter the following information:

   • Year - enter the year for which you want to generate the report.

   • Quarter - enter the reporting quarter (1, 2, 3 or 4).

   • Report Type - select whether the report is Original/Amended.

   • Employer - select the legal employer for whom to generate the report.

   • Payroll - select a payroll to generate the report for a subset of employees under a particular payroll.

   • Assignment Set - select an assignment set to generate the EHECS for a set of assignments only.

   • Occupational Category - select this if you want the report to consider a particular occupational category only. Note that the summary for the other categories will be reported as 0 in this case.

   • Declaration Date - enter the date of declaration.

   • Address Change - if there was a change in the employer's address during this quarter, select Yes, else select No.

   • Comments - Enter any comments that you want to report in the Survey report.

3. Click OK and Submit to generate an XML output.

4. Click the View Output button to view the output. The application saves the xml file in your environment's output directory. Rename this xml file as required and submit it. To view the formatted version of the report, submit the process XML Report Publisher, providing the request ID of the successful IE EHECS Report process. If you need to change any data and regenerate the report, then you can roll back and rerun the IE EHECS Report process.

5. If the IE EHECS Report ends in an error, it is possible that there is some missing mandatory data required for reporting or the data does not meet the validation criteria. Click the View Log button to verify the reason for the failure.