1. Log into your payroll platform.
2. Go to Payroll settings.
3. Select time off Categories.
4. Select Occupational Absence.
5. In the drop down menu you can select 12/24 month rolling Sickness entitlement period.
6. A rolling period looks back either 12 or 24 months to check if any sick time off has previously been taken and will calculate the remainder available to take.
7. Click Save.

1. Next, you need to apply the entitlement to a time off category.
2. In a time off category select time off category type.
3. Select Occupational sick time off.
4. Make sure ‘Automatically accrues’ and ‘based on length of service’ remain selected on the next screen.
5. Select a number of service bands, up to a maximum of 10, and enter the service length based on weeks, months or years.
6. Enter service length.
7. Select a number of payment bands, up to a maximum of 10, and enter the percentage value of each band.
8. Enter the number of days entitlement at each percentage against each service length.
9. If there are employees who work more or less than 5 days per week, a separate time off category will need to be created for them with the number of days adjusted accordingly.
10. In the case where multiple time off categories for Occupational time off are created, please see the section further down regarding time off allowance templates.
11. Unpaid days at start of sick period: Similar to SSP waiting days, the ientered number of days at the start of each sickness period will not be paid.
12. Days worked before recalculating: The number of days the employee has to work before OSP can become payable again. If you enter 5, after the employee has had a period of sickness then returned to work, the employee would need to work 5 days before they can be off sick and paid for the sickness.
13. Pay category to use: This is automatically populated once the first Occupational sick time off category has been created. The pay component will be titled Occupational sick pay. This is a system pay category that cannot be edited.
14. Click Save.

If you are setting up more than one occupational sick time off category or have employees who are not entitled to the occupational sick time off category you need to use time off allowance templates.

You can create a time off allowance template for each new time off type or if you have existing ones you can edit them. An employee should only be added to one occupational time off category at a time otherwise they will be entitled to all.

Employees not entitled to OSP

1. For employees who are not entitled to occupational sick time off.
2. Log into your payroll platforom
3. Click the Business Settings menu.
4. Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
5. Click the time off Allowance Templates button.Here you will see a list of the existing time off Allowance Templates and will display the number of employees that are linked to that template:
6. Click the Add button. Read here for how to add a LAT. 
7. Create a LAT for them and do not enable any OSP time off category.
8. This enables them to be paid SSP only.

Employees who are entitled to OSP

For employees who are entitled to the Occupational Sick pay, follow the same steps to create a LAT.  This gives them the time off they are entitled to.

This enabled OSP category will show the entitlement within the LAT screen.  

For the purposes of reporting, tags can be created for Occupational sick time off.

1. Click Add.
2. Add a title and confirm by clicking on the green tick.
3. Click on Add a category.
4. Select Occupational Sick time off.
5. Click Save.
6. To Edit a tag click the pencil icon. 
7. To Delete a tag click the bin icon and confirm delete. 

You can enter a sickness for an employee in the Statutory/Occupational Pay section.

1. Click on Employee menu. 
2. Select the Employee List. 
3. Navigate to or search for the employee you need to enter the information for.
4. Select Statutory/Occupational Pay from the Pay run setting menu.
5. Click Add.
6. Select the Occupational sick time off category (there should only be one to choose from providing you have only set one type up or you have followed the LAT rule).
7. Add the dates of the sickness.
8. The OSP amount due and details about how many days are to be unpaid/paid will show along with what service band the employee falls into.
9. In Advanced options you can override the OSP amount, amend the service band, add a reporting tag and add any attachments such as a sick note. You can also add any notes here.

10. Click Save.
11. A corresponding SSP record will be saved alongside the OSP record added.

12. The sickness can be edited using the pen icon or deleted using the red bin icon.
13. Once the sickness has been paid in a pay run and the pay run has been finalised, the sickness will not be able to be deleted.

1. Open the pay run that corresponds to the record you just created. You can do this by navigating by date.
2. Select the employee you wish to edit the OSP for.
3. Expand these employee details.
4. In the open pay run the OSP can be edited using the edit icon.
5. You can also enter the OSP in the open pay run by selecting Actions.
6. Then click Pay occupational time off.
7. Select time off Category.
8. Click Occupational Sick Pay.
9. From here the details can be edited as normal in the statutory panel.