FAQ - How Do I
Question
Ensure accrued Holiday pay calculates correctly?
Answer
Since the legal requirement that paid leave cannot be
consolidated and must be taken as days off, AvaPA has supported
automatic calculation and incorporation in pay output. To do this
there are a number of setting which determine the actual amounts of
paid leave generated.
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The start date of the calculation: there are two opportunities
to enter this date, when dates differ: the calculations will be
made in date order, with shifts up to the later date being
calculated at the settings for the earlier date and shifts before
the earlier date being ignored. This allows unclaimed leave to be
dropped off at the (earliest of the two) financial year boundary.
Alternately shifts may be dropped off on a rolling year basis by
selecting the option "disregard paid leave older than".
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The rate at which leave is accumulated - this is expressed as
a percentage of the hours worked. This can be set across the board
or overridden by each pay scale, allowing the specifications of
individual customer contracts to be met and varied on a customer by
customer basis.
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The legal requirement is that an employee needs to accumulate
a (minimum of a) half day before being entitled to claim the half
day. Local agreements may vary; this check can be disabled by
selecting the "do not enforce a minimum half day leave" check. If
an employee is a leaver, then the minimum half day check is
automatically overridden.
These setting are configured by database supervisors on the
"menu | setup | file locations and defaults" then click on the paid
leave tab
Please note, accrued paid leave activation dates and percentages
(inside red outline) are set separately from Contactor's
consolidated leave dates and percentages (red outline)

This FAQ was last updated on 02 November 2009