Self-service kronos workforce central historical reporting for finance, HR, audit and legal teams. SQL query layer + web UI + signed evidence packs over a Parquet archive. Survives Dec 2025 / Mar 2027 EOL without an active Kronos subscription.
Operational reporting moves to Fusion. But evidentiary reporting on closed periods needs an archive layer that survives WFC EOL and answers FLSA, FMLA, state wage, IRS and union queries fast.
Once Fusion is live and WFC has been migrated, the live WFC tenant gets retired — either at the December 2025 Kronos Private Cloud EOL or the March 2027 on-prem EOL. But retention obligations don't retire with the tenant. FLSA mandates 3 years for payroll records and 2 years for supporting timecards. State wage law extends to 4 years in California, 6 in New York, 7 in others. FMLA requires 3 years. IRS payroll examination reaches back 4 years. Union contracts commonly require 5+ years for grievance support.
Loading all that into Fusion makes Fusion the wrong shape — Fusion Time & Labor is sized for forward-looking operational data, not 100+ million rows of historical punches kept solely for compliance retention. The cost is wrong (Fusion-subscription pricing is not the right home for cold archive data) and the performance is wrong (operational Time Card queries slow when the table is bloated with retired-employee history).
Kronos workforce central historical reporting fixes this with a separate purpose-built layer: Parquet archive on object storage, SQL query layer (Athena/Trino/BigQuery external), pre-built templates for the actual request types that arrive (FLSA pull, accrual snapshot, FMLA detail, union grievance, state class action), web UI for non-SQL users, signed evidence packs for direct audit handoff. The layer is independent of Fusion and independent of WFC — it survives both.
Built around the real evidence requests that hit HR, payroll and legal teams. Pre-built, one-click, signed evidence pack ready.
Employee + date range → punch detail, signed timecard equivalent, pay rule applied. Signed evidence pack for DOL Wage & Hour handoff. Sub-30-second response.
Effective date + pay group → accrual balance per code, YTD earn/take, carryover, cap. For 10-K filings and SOX accrual sign-off.
Employee + case-id → leave case state, intermittent fragments, certifications, eligibility. Continuity for case re-opens and ADA-FMLA interplay reviews.
Employee + pay period → punches, signed timecard, pay rule applied. Hash-signed evidence pack for grievance hearings and arbitration.
Employee identifier (SSN-last-4 + DOB) → employment dates, hours worked summary, accrual final balance. For background-check and unemployment verification.
Jurisdiction + date range → bulk timecard pulls for affected workforce. Hash-signed, sized for multi-million-row class action evidence demands.
A repeatable response pattern for the standard evidentiary request types. From request inbox to delivered evidence pack in under an hour.
HR/legal/audit request lands. User logs into kronos workforce central historical reporting web UI with SSO. No SQL knowledge required.
User picks template (FLSA pull, accrual snapshot, FMLA detail, etc.), enters parameters (employee, date range, pay group, jurisdiction). Template descriptions explain exactly what evidence the pack will contain.
Parquet archive scanned with partition pushdown (fiscal year + pay group filter). Hash signatures verified at row level. Result set assembled with audit metadata.
Result rendered as interactive table for review + downloadable evidence pack (PDF + CSV + signed manifest). Manifest covers source-system, extraction timestamp, hash signatures, query scope.
Pack delivered via download or secure share link. Read-access logged with user-id, timestamp, query-id, record scope. SOX who-queried-what evidence captured.
Signed pack handed to investigator/auditor/counsel. Chain-of-custody intact: hash signatures verify no alteration since extraction. Authenticated evidence, no follow-up disputes.
Built for the request patterns that actually hit HR, payroll and legal — not generic BI on a data lake.
Columnar Parquet with fiscal-year × pay-group partitioning. Single-employee multi-year pulls return in seconds, not minutes.
Built for HR/payroll/legal users — no SQL needed. Pick template, enter parameters, click run, download signed pack.
Hash-signed manifests, immutable Parquet, read-access logs. Chain-of-custody preserved for DOL, IRS, state wage and union evidence.
Tableau / Power BI / Qlik / Looker / Mode all connect via SQL. Semantic layer ships as star schema — analysts skip the raw WFC join detective work.
Independent of Fusion, independent of WFC. Lives on object storage indefinitely. Continues delivering evidence well past Dec 2025 / Mar 2027 EOL.
FLSA pull, accrual snapshot, FMLA detail, union grievance, state class action, ex-employee verification — the request types that actually arrive.
Kronos workforce central historical reporting is self-service access to closed-period WFC data — punches, signed timecards, accrual liability snapshots, FMLA case detail, terminated employee history — after the active WFC tenant has been migrated to Fusion or retired entirely. The use cases are not operational (current pay-period processing belongs in Fusion); they are evidentiary and analytical: FLSA audit response, state wage class action defense, IRS payroll examination, FMLA re-opens, union grievance support, ex-employee verification requests, year-over-year labor trend analysis. Syntra ETL exposes historical reporting via SQL query layer + lightweight web UI + pre-built templates, with no dependency on the active WFC subscription.
Because the natural home for historical reporting — the live WFC tenant — is going away. Kronos Private Cloud EOL is December 2025; on-prem WFC EOL is March 2027. After that, the tenant disappears but retention obligations persist for FLSA (3 years), state wage law (up to 7 years), FMLA (3 years), IRS payroll (4 years), and union contracts (commonly 5+ years). Fusion is the operational target but isn't sized for 7+ years of granular punch history. A purpose-built kronos workforce central historical reporting layer over a Parquet archive is the only architecture that survives EOL without losing access to evidence.
Pre-built templates cover the request types that actually arrive: FLSA timecard pull by employee/date range, accrual liability snapshot as-of effective date, FMLA case detail with intermittent fragments, union grievance evidence pack with pay rule applied, ex-employee verification by SSN-last-4 + date-of-birth, state wage class action bulk pull by jurisdiction + date range, year-over-year labor cost trend by pay group, terminated-employee final-balance audit. Each template emits both an interactive results view and a signed evidence pack PDF/ZIP suitable for handing to investigators, opposing counsel or auditors.
Yes. The web UI is built for HR partners, payroll analysts and audit-response staff — no SQL required. Users pick a template (FLSA pull, accrual snapshot, FMLA detail, etc.), enter parameters (employee, date range, pay group), and run. Results show in a sortable/filterable table with one-click export to Excel, CSV, or signed evidence pack. Advanced users (data ops, finance analytics) can drop into the underlying SQL layer (Athena/Trino/BigQuery external) for ad-hoc queries. Both paths log every query with user-id, timestamp and scope for SOX who-queried-what evidence.
Yes — and this is a top use case. California PAGA actions, New York Wage Theft Prevention Act claims, Massachusetts class actions, and Washington wage claims all require bulk timecard pulls for affected employees across the relevant statutory window (often 4-6 years back). The kronos workforce central historical reporting layer supports filter-by-state, filter-by-date-range, filter-by-pay-group with hash-signed evidence packs per query. Defense counsel can hand the signed pack to plaintiff counsel as authenticated evidence — no chain-of-custody disputes about whether the data has been altered.
Typical query response: 5–30 seconds for a single-employee multi-year pull, 30 seconds to 5 minutes for a bulk state-wide pull spanning millions of punches. Performance comes from columnar Parquet storage with fiscal-year × pay-group partitioning — queries push down filters and only scan relevant partitions, not the full archive. For the most-common templates (single-employee FLSA pull, FMLA case detail, accrual snapshot), response is consistently sub-30-second even across multi-billion-row archives. Bulk extracts run with parallel workers and return in proportion to result size, not archive size.
Yes. The Parquet archive is queryable via standard SQL through Athena / Trino / BigQuery external tables, which means Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Looker and Mode can all connect. Syntra ETL ships a semantic layer (dbt models, or equivalent for your BI tool) that exposes the WFC archive as a well-shaped star schema: punch_fact, timecard_fact, accrual_fact, fmla_case_fact, plus employee_dim, pay_group_dim, labor_account_dim, date_dim. Analysts get historical labor analytics without learning the WFC raw schema or building joins from scratch.
Indefinitely, governed by retention policy. The archive lives on object storage (S3/Azure Blob/GCS) independent of any vendor — no Kronos subscription, no Fusion dependency, no Syntra ETL operational dependency required to read it. Retention policies per data domain per jurisdiction drive tier-out and (where contract permits) deletion. For pure access continuity, customers commonly run the historical reporting layer for 10+ years post WFC EOL to cover the longest applicable retention windows (union grievance, state wage law, deferred-compensation lookback). The marginal cost of an extra year on object storage is trivial versus the cost of losing access to legally-required evidence.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll review your retention obligations, anticipated audit profile, jurisdiction footprint and BI integration requirements — and confirm a concrete historical reporting go-live timeline before the call ends.