Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR plans: Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Admin
How it works
Employees can submit timesheets using a unit measurement instead of hours. For example, an employee can enter the total distance travelled instead of entering the total amount of hours travelled.
Set up units of work
Before employees can submit their timesheets, the administrator needs to set up units of work on the Employment Hero platform and Payroll classic platform. Follow the four steps:
- Log in to your Employment Hero platform.
- Click the Business Settings menu.
- Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
- Click Pay Categories.
- Click Add at the top right of the screen.
- Enter 'Fixed Units of Work' in the Pay Category Name field.
- Click Save.
- In the Units menu, select Fixed.
- Complete the Super Rate and Rate Loading fields.
ImportantThe Payroll classic platform adds the rate loading amount on top of the base rate.
- Penalty loading.
- PAYG exempt.
- Accrues leave.
- Payroll tax exempt.
- Hide units on pay slip.
ImportantThe Payroll classic platform adds the penalty loading amount on top of the base rate and the rate loading.
- External ID.
- Payment classification.
- Rate precision.
- GL mapping.
- General ledger super liability mapping code.
- General ledger super expense mapping code.
- Click Save.
- Log in to your Employment Hero platform.
- Click the Business Settings menu.
- Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
- Click Work Types.
- Click Add at the top right of the screen.
- Enter 'Units of Work' in the Name field.
- In the Work Type Maps To section, select Pay Category, then select Fixed Units of Work pay category you created in Step 1.
- Complete the following fields:
- Name
- External ID
- Automatically enabled for:
- Full time
- Part time
- Labour hire
- Superannuation income stream
- Casual
- Work type maps to:
- Employees primary pay category
- Pay category
- Leave category
- Short code
- Click Save at the bottom right of your screen.
- The Work type will automatically sync across to your Employment Hero platform, once you have created it in the Payroll classic platform.
- Log in to your Employment Hero platform.
- Click the People menu.
- Click the Employees List submenu.
- Select the employee who needs the Units Worked, work type applied.
- Select Pay Details.
- Click the Pay Run Details tab.
- Select the Timesheet type and select either:
- Under Work Types, select the Work types that this employee can select from when submitting timesheets.
- Click Save.
Important
The work type field is only available for these two timesheet types:
- Use timesheets to submit all time worked.
-
Use timesheets for exceptions only.
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