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Unable Submit an Employee Timecard without a Labor Item - Earning Type Annual Leave

  • August 11, 2026
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Hi All

I’m setting up Employee Timecars & I want users to Enter their AL (Annual Leave)

However I don’t want the AL Earning Type to be associated with a Labor Item. Hence I’m runing into this error.

Is there a way around this.

 

 

Best answer by Naveen Boga

​@Avishka Yes. The error you're seeing is consistent with Acumatica's standard validation: a time-card line expects a Labor Item, and Acumatica uses that labor item for labor costing/project-related processing. The documentation describes the Labor Item as a labor-type non-stock item on the time-card line, and says the system normally defaults it from the employee.

I see there are 2 options 

Option 1: Best configuration workaround - Create a dedicated Labor Item such as: AL - Annual Leave

Option 2: If you specifically don't want a Labor Item for AL, I would recommend customizing the Employee Time Card validation i.e. Not to display the error message if the Earning Type = AL

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  • August 11, 2026

​@Avishka Yes. The error you're seeing is consistent with Acumatica's standard validation: a time-card line expects a Labor Item, and Acumatica uses that labor item for labor costing/project-related processing. The documentation describes the Labor Item as a labor-type non-stock item on the time-card line, and says the system normally defaults it from the employee.

I see there are 2 options 

Option 1: Best configuration workaround - Create a dedicated Labor Item such as: AL - Annual Leave

Option 2: If you specifically don't want a Labor Item for AL, I would recommend customizing the Employee Time Card validation i.e. Not to display the error message if the Earning Type = AL

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