Employee Compensation Compliance (ECC) is a third party software application provided by Huron Consulting Group. Since UW-FT and go-live of Workday as the institution's accounting system, UW uses ECC as its official system for complying with federal regulations in relation to effort reporting and sponsored project payroll verification. The system generates reports documenting faculty effort and staff payroll on sponsored awards, and these report varieties must be certified by Faculty and PIs at UW.
When a faculty/PI certifies a statement in ECC, they are attesting that the effort/payroll on the statement is an accurate reflection of work performed benefitting the associated sponsored award(s). These certifications are required for all sponsored awards at UW, and must be completed within the ECC system.
Salaries and wages which appear on both Effort Statements and Project Statements in ECC are the result of an integration with Workday payroll. Compensation charged to sponsored awards within Workday will flow into ECC via this integration. If changes are made in Workday (Payroll Accounting Adjustments), those changes are integrated to ECC every Monday.
GIM 35 covers University policy for effort reporting: https://www.washington.edu/research/policies/gim-35/