Employee record – Leave

You can create different Leave types. Elite Payroll also comes with four of its own that must be used to track and pay those types of leave For employees entitled to leave loading, Elite Payroll will automatically calculate the annual leave loading and adjust the employee's hourly rate when on annual leave. Elite Payroll does not limit the number of leave items that can be entered.

1 Leave Type – Select the leave type. If the leave type you want hasn't yet been set up, type in the name and then press TAB. Click Setup on the Quick-Add pop-up window to add the leave type to the to the Pay Rates List. When you select an existing leave type, Elite Payroll will automatically enter the defaults for that leave type.

$image\bullet.gif$ Annual leave – You can set up default settings for each pay rate in the Pay Rate details.

$image\bullet.gif$ Special leave – In Leave Preferences you can choose if Special leave is calculated while the employee is on annual, sick, or unpaid leave.

2 Start Accruing After – Specify when leave should start accruing. If you leave this section blank, Elite Payroll will start accruing the leave immediately. Alternatively, you can enter how long Elite Payroll should wait before it starts accruing leave.

Number – Enter the number of periods before leave starts to accrue.

Period – Select a period from the drop-down list. A period can be the number of Pays, Weeks, Months or Years before it starts accruing. Select Birthdays if you want leave to begin to accrue on the employee’s birthday.

3 Accrual Details – Enter how often the leave accrues by selecting the period from the Every column.

Period – Select what leave accrual is based on. It can be based on total hours, hours worked under a Normal Hours pay rate, pays, weeks, months, years, or even birthdays.

Accrue Hours – Enter how many leave hours should be accrued per hour, or per "period", as selected above.

4 Hours Accrued to Date – If you are setting up Elite Payroll part way through the year, enter the number of hours the employee has accrued to date for each leave type.

5 Employee Annual Leave Loading – If the employee is entitled to annual leave loading, enter the percentage. Elite Payroll will add leave loading to the employee's pay when you pay them Annual Leave. See leave loading for details.