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Manage Long Service Leave on Payroll classic

Available for the following Payroll plan: Standard, Premium
Available for the following user access levels: Admin

An employee receives long-service leave after an extended period of working for the same employer. See the Fair Work Ombudsman website for more detailed information about long service leave. 

Getting started

Setting up long-service leave in the Payroll Classic platform
  1. Log into Payroll Classic.
  2. Click on the Business submenu.
  3. Click on Payroll Settings
  4. Select Leave Categories.
    Screenshot of where to select leave categories
  5. Long Service Leave is provided as a default, but if you wish to add your own, click the green Add button to add a new leave category and under the Leave category type.
  6. Select Long Service Leave.
  7. When you select long service leave, you will be given the option to set the contingent and entitlement periods for the long service leave.


    Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

    The contingent period is the period of time after which an employer may be required to pay out long service leave under certain circumstances.
    The entitlement period is the period of time after which an employee is eligible for their long service leave entitlement.

    Helpful Hint

    Click on the information icons to the right of the contingent and entitlement period sections for more detailed information on this.

Viewing an employee's long-service leave
  1. Log into Payroll Classic.
  2. Click on the Employee submenu. 
  3. Choose the employee whose long-service leave you wish to view.
  4. Click on Leave Balances. 
  5. When you view the long-service leave for an individual employee, you will be able to see when their entitlement is due.

    Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave 
     
  6. Once long service leave has been applied to an employee, their entitlement date will be displayed in the pay run so you can quickly see if they are eligible for long service leave.


    Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

Helpful Hint

Once enabled for an employee long service leave will continue to accrue however, an employee will only be able to apply for long service leave and view it on their pay slips once the entitlement date has been reached.

Long Service Leave Accrual Subsequent to Initial Entitlement

This demonstration was completed for NSW but you can adjust the years to suit your State.

To achieve the request in regard to subsequent LSL, we recommend creating an additional LSL leave category and Leave template. Some clients identify the difference between the two through additions in the name, i.e. LSL 0-10yrs and LSL 10-15yrs.

In the new leave category, you will alter the contingent and entitlement periods to reflect your State. All other parts of the leave category settings will remain the same as the current one.

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

I have done this in the testing platform for demonstration purposes:

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

Then to the Leave templates. You will need to clone both NSW templates. I will show you the first one as done in the testing platform:

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

In the top section you will leave the initial LSL switched on and also turn on the new one:

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

Then scroll down to the actual leave. For the base LSL, tick override and change the units to zero. The idea here is that once an employee is on this template, you do not want them accruing more of this leave, but they need to be able to access the leave to take it.

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

Then scroll down to the new leave category and ensure the units here are showing and save. This then means that any employee on this template will accrue this LSL category rather than the other one.

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

If the employee is on an Award and classification/ employment agreement, then you will need to add the new templates to that Employment Agreement. 

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

Any time you update a setting in the payroll platform, you also need to pull the information through to the HR platform. You can complete this through General Settings> Add-ons> Action> Update> pay items. This ensures that all information is the same on both platforms. Otherwise, the HR platform will override the payroll information during the next sync.

Once this sync is complete, it will be available in the HR platform for you to choose.

Screenshot of contingency and entitlement periods for long service leave

We recommend that you create a new salary in these circumstances, rather than an edit, to ensure a clear visual audit trail of changes. The change of this template is a manual process and cannot be automated. However, you may wish to set up a Task in the HR platform to assist as a reminder- Managing other tasks - HR Web Platform .

If you find that you need to complete any Leave Adjustments, you will be able to do so on your next pay run.

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