Mastering Complex Rule Sets with Effective Dated Fields

“If I want to make a retro change from two years ago, or I’m being audited and need to verify something from three years back, I can!”

That’s how Mat Diab, founder of WorkAxle, describes the power of effective dated fields in workforce management.

At first glance, effective dating might sound like a technical backend feature, but in practice, it’s one of the foundational tools that allows WorkAxle to manage complex rule sets across time, jurisdictions, and workforce changes with simplicity and precision.

Every employee profile in the platform is anchored in time. Whether someone moves to a new location, joins a different union, changes departments, or shifts into a new labor group, those transitions are recorded with effective dates. This makes it possible to accurately reconstruct an employee’s profile at any point in the past or apply future changes automatically, without manual updates.

In this clip, Mat breaks down how effective dated fields solve key workforce management challenges, including:

• Rebuilding employee profiles retroactively for audits, pay corrections, or compliance
• Automatically applying the right rule sets based on where and when someone worked
• Avoiding manual retro calculations and minimizing errors tied to outdated groupings
• Managing future-dated changes with a “set it and forget it” approach
• Handling multi-jurisdiction and multi-union complexity with clarity and confidence
  
  

By maintaining a complete history of every employee’s affiliations and linking them to the correct rules over time, the platform removes the guesswork from compliance and saves teams countless hours of manual work.