Annual leave accrual for employee on workers compensation

Hi JoR,

Thank you for your post. 

Just to understand your setup better, how are you currently recording this employee's 'workers compensation' in the software? Have you created a 'workers compensation' payroll category and entered the relevant hours/amounts every pay cycle?  

If so, you would want to make sure you have your Annual Leave accrual item set to calculate and accrue either a fixed amount per pay period or a % of the gross hours per pay period. See below:

You also want to make sure that the 'Workers compensation' category has not been made exempt from the accrual category. You can check this by opening the annual leave accrual category and clicking the 'Exempt' tab, then ensuring there is no 'tick' placed against the category in question. 

If your setup is different from the above and this has not assisted you, please do let me know further details of your setup. 

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Hi Sam

Thanks for your reply.

The setup is as you have suggested with a separate 'workers compensation' payroll category and relevant amounts entered each pay cycle. The annual leave accrual is set up and the 'workers compensation' category is not exempt.

However the annual leave accrual is zero and has to be manually entered at this stage.

The setup of the 'workers compensation' category included overriding the employee wage expense account (as per guidelines from MYOB).

Has this caused the problem? 

Kind rregards

Jo

Hi JoR,

I'm not aware of this being a cause for an issue like this. 

Were you able to provide a screenshot of both categories set-up and attach it in your reply? 

Hi Sam

Screen shot of both categories attached.

Kind regards

JoR

Hi JoR 

Thanks for those screenshots. The expense account selected in Override Employee's Wage Expense Account only determines how the payment will be reported in financial reports like the P&L. If you do select a different account in this option the Workers compensation amounts will be reported separately to the Wage and Salary amounts. 

As explained by Sam_R , leave accrual is calculated according to the set up of the entitlement payroll category and how the payments are entered in Process payroll. Can you go to Payroll categories>>Entitlements tab>>open the leave accrual category and check the Calculation basis selected.

If it's Equals % of Gross hours, click on Exempt and make sure the workers comp payroll category is not ticked. Then make sure that hours are being entered against the workers comp wage category when processing a pay. 

If you continue to have problems with this can you provide the following screenshots:

• leave accrual payroll category set up
• the exempt window in the leave accrual payroll category
• a sample pay transaction

Let me know how you go.

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