If you offer additional pay for employees who are on parental leave, you can create rules to fit with your policies. To do this, follow the steps below.
📌Note: Occupational rules can't be created for shared parental leave.
Create a rule base
Click System, and then click Occupational.
Click Parental Pay, and then click New OPP.
Click the required tab.
Maternity
Paternity (Birth)
Paternity (Adoption)
Adoption
Enter a unique Code and Name for the rule.
🤓Tip: If you want the rule to be applied to employees automatically when a parental record is entered, select the default checkbox.
If required, select the checkbox, automatically reduce salary when the rule is assigned.
Generates the OPP Gross Reduction pay element, which reduces the pay elements paid in the period that are flagged as Use for Daily Rate.
Enter the number of weeks the employee must be employed for before the rule will apply.
Select the condition that the weeks must meet.
Actual date of birth.
Expected Week of Childbirth (EWC).
Start of the 11th week before EWC.
Start of the 15th week before EWC.
End of the 15th week before EWC.
Select what the rule should use to calculate the employee's full pay.
Daily rate.
Selected pay element:- Click the magnifying glass
icon, then double-click the required pay element.
Click Save.
Create rule details
Click the number of weeks field on line one.
Enter the number of weeks for the first line of the rule.
Click the % of pay field, enter the desired pay amount for the period of weeks.
🤓Tip: You can create as many lines in the rule as you require.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each line required.
For each line created, if required, select;
Plus SMP:- Includes the statutory payment in the occupational calculation.
Capped at full pay:- Limits the employee's pay to their full rate if the combination of statutory and occupational is greater than their full rate.
Click Save and Close.