EMPLOYEE AWARD SETTINGS
The employee award screen allows the user to override employee specific rules, such as agreed normal hours, leave entitlements and default daily cost settings.
If there is an override in place on the employee award this will take precedence over the company award setting.
Properties
Shifts
- Weekly hours: Default is 38 – Change to employees normal weekly hours if required
- Total Breaks Position: Default is 5 – This controls where the break will be auto allocated in time entry)
- Maximum break time on shift change date: Default is 1 hour which is the time considered to be a meal break, if the total break time is more than specified value the system will consider the times to be two separate shifts.
Public Holidays
- Public Holiday Set Default Enable: This flag can be disable if you do not require prefill of Public Holiday hours not worked.
- Public Holiday default Hours: Alter here if 8 is not the correct default for the individual. Change in company settings to update all employees with a different setting.
Superannuation
- Monthly threshold for super payments: This is not operational at this time but will be implemented in future updates.
Automatic Meal Break
- Enabled: If enabled the system will automatically allocate a 1/2 hour break to all shifts worked for the employee.
Maintenance Horticultural employee:
- Enabled: Enable this function if you are paying the employee under the M & H award, this will override the rules for normal hours as per the M & H award conditions.
Default Payroll Costs:
- Use this feature to allocate fixed daily costing percentages to each day of the week.
Earnings:
Ordinary, Saturday and Sunday Hours
- Rate: This is the multiplier used by the system to calculate the employees actual hourly rate by multiplying the employees base rate times the factor entered here.
- Min Hours: This sets the minimum hours that will be paid per shift in time entry.
- Max Hours: Maximum normal hours paid, all hours over what is specified here will be treated as Overtime
- Overtime 1 Hours: Hours to be paid at the first rate of Overtime
- Overtime 2 Rate: Multiplier for Overtime rate 1 (eg – 50% = 1.50)
- Overtime 2 Rate: Multiplier for Overtime rate 2 (eg – 100% = 2.00)
- Automatic: Add to Payrun: Ticking this field means this pay category will be automatically added when using the Manual Entry processing method during payun.
- Hours: Employees normal weekly hours. This value will be used to prefill the hours worked when using Manual Entry
Public Holiday
- Rate: This is the multiplier used by the system to calculate the employees actual hourly rate by multiplying the employees base rate times the factor entered here.
- Min Hours: This sets the minimum hours that will be paid per shift in time entry.
- Max Hours: Maximum normal hours paid, all hours over what is specified here will be treated as Overtime
- Automatic: Add to Payrun: Ticking this field means this pay category will be automatically added when using the Manual Entry processing method during payun.
Leave Loading
- Enable: This will need to be disabled if your award does not include and entitlement of Annual Leave Loading.
Time In Lieu
- Automatic Time in Lieu Accrual: Only enable this here if all employees in your organization are accruing time in lieu. For individuals enable this pay category under the employees award settings
Rostered Day off
- Enable: Only enable this here if all employees in your organization are accruing Additional Rostered days Off. For individuals enable this pay category under the employees award settings
