Always have one 'Default Check' record defined to pay a payroll check to 100% distribution.
When payrolls are processed, two scenarios cause the system to look for an employee's default paycheck record to remedy the situation:
The Net Pay Code for the default paycheck typically has a higher process sequence number compared to other net pay codes, so that it is defined to process after direct deposits.
Marking the default check record to auto-create allows new hire processing to add the default check record.
This can be adjusted on the employee-level.