Payroll setting "Automatically adjust base hourly or base salary details" - affecting both hours and hourly rate
We have a payroll category for a shift allowance, which is paid as 1.5x or 2x the base hourly rate.
In the past, I manually reduced the number of base hours from 38, and paid allocated the other hours to the Shift Allowance wage category.
I thought it would be better to have MYOB automatically reduce the base hours when I use the Shift Allowance categories - in the same way it does this for Personal or Annual Leave.
However when enabling this setting, this week it has:
- reduced the number of base hours from 38 to 33 hrs. Correct.
- also reduced the hourly rate for those base hours. Incorrect.
Because the base hourly rate is not shown on the Process Payroll screen, this obscurity is not seen, until employees receive their payslip.
Am I misunderstanding this feature? Or is there a bug/glitch that needs to be reported/corrected?
I interpret the dialog box mean:
- automatically adjust the number of base hours (for an hourly wage), OR
- for a salary employee, adjust the base salary amount ($) by the allowance. (for a salary wage)
But not to do BOTH!
