Leave Maintenance Screen Changes

A new field has been added to our Leave set up to capture the Leave Class. This field will be visible whether STP2 is enabled or not. However, it is mandatory if you are using STP2.


1. Leave List

Any Leaves that do not have a Leave Class specified will be highlighted red if STP2 is enabled.

2. Leave Class.

Each Leave setup must have a valid Leave Class defined if STP2 is enabled.

Leave Class Definitions

Personal Leave (S)

Sick and carer's leave (also known as personal leave or personal / carer's leave) lets an employee take time off to help them deal with personal illness, caring responsibilities and family emergencies.

Sick leave can be used when an employee is ill or injured.

An employee may have to take time off to care for an immediate family or household member who is sick or injured or help during a family emergency. This is known as carer's leave but it comes out of the employee's personal leave balance.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/sick-and-carers-leave

Annual Leave (A)

Annual leave (also known as holiday pay) allows an employee to be paid while having time off from work.

The entitlement to annual leave comes from the National Employment Standards.

Awards, enterprise agreements and other registered agreements can't offer less than the National Employment Standards but they can give more annual leave.

All employees (except for casual employees) get paid annual leave. Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks of annual leave, based on their ordinary hours of work.

Annual leave accumulates from the first day of employment, even if an employee is in a probation period.

The leave accumulates gradually during the year and any unused annual leave will roll over from year to year.

Annual leave accumulates when an employee is on:

  • paid leave such as paid annual leave and paid sick and carer's leave
  • community service leave including jury duty
  • long service leave.

Annual leave does not accumulate when the employee is on:

  • unpaid annual leave
  • unpaid sick/carer's leave
  • unpaid parental leave
  • unpaid family and domestic violence leave.

The Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme is not considered to be paid leave. An employee does not accumulate annual leave while being paid by the Paid Parental Leave Scheme, if the person is taking unpaid leave from their employer at this time.

Leave does not accumulate for a period of annual leave that has been cashed out.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave

Long Service Leave (L)

An employee gets long service leave after a long period of working for the same employer.

Most employees' entitlement to long service leave comes from long service leave laws in each state or territory. These laws set out:

  • how long an employee has to be working to get long service leave (eg. after 7 years)
  • how much long service leave the employee gets.

In some states and territories long serving casuals are eligible for long service leave.

To find out about long service leave entitlements, contact the long service leave agency in your state or territory:

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/long-service-leave

Paid Parental Leave (P)

Employees can get Parental Leave Pay (PLP) from the Australian Government and paid parental leave from their employer.

Employees who get PLP and employer-funded paid parental leave are still entitled to unpaid parental leave.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/maternity-and-parental-leave/paid-parental-leave

Banked Leave (T)

Banked Leave is also known as RDO, ADO, TOIL and TIL. This type of Leave is paid for from the Employee's salary as a before tax deduction and accrues so that the Employee can take that leave later and be paid for the time off.

An example is where an agreement exists to accrue 1 day of Leave over 10 days or work by working an extra 54 minutes per day (assuming a 8 hour normal span of hours).

Tax is paid when the Leave is taken (or paid out).


Ancillary Defence Leave (D)

Defense service leave.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/community-service-leave


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