Workers Compensation

There exist two taxable payment options for Workers’ Compensation Payments, both of which also incur superannuation.

Non-Return to work Workers Comp:

Applying Workers Compensation

  1. Select Company Settings
  2. Select Pay Categories
  3. Select Paid Leave
  4. From the list select Workers Compensation
  5. Make sure this is enabled
  6. Select Save

 

Adding to the Employee

  1. Select Employees
  2. Select the Employee
  3. Select Award
  4. Select the Paid Leave drop-down arrow to open the list. Select Workers Compensation.
  5. Make sure the Enable button is ticked
  6. Optional setting for Automatically adding to pay run.
  7. Select save

Adding to Payrun

  1. Select Payrun / Manage
  2. Select Employee
  3. Select Add a Pay Category (dropdown menu will appear)
  4. Scroll down Add Workers Compensation.

Open the Cost centre and add value to the rate and units as one

 

Returned to partial work Workers Compensation:

Adding Workers Compensation Top Up.

Upon the employee’s return to work, while still receiving compensation, it is necessary to establish a Workers’ Compensation top-up allowance.

  1. Select Company Settings
  2. Select Pay Categories
  3. Select Allowances
  4. Select the Add button
  5. Enter the Name “Workers Comp Top Up)
  6. Tick Enable
  7. Make sure Taxable and Superannuation is selected
  8. Set the Value to $1
  9. Select save
  10. Allowance will appear in the list.

 

Adding to the Employee

  1. Select Employees
  2. Select the Employee
  3. Select Award
  4. Click on the word Allowances
  5. Select the plus + button
  6. Select from the list of Workers Compensation top-up
  7. Enable the Allowance
  8. If this is a reoccurring Method select weekly from the drop-down menu
  9. Change or leave the value
  10. Select Save

Adding to Payrun

Follow these prompts if the previous step did not include changing the Input to Weekly.

  1. Select Payrun / Manage
  2. Select Employee
  3. Select Add a Pay Category (dropdown menu will appear)
  4. Scroll down to Add Workers Comp Top Up.  Select Add a pay category.

This will add the allowance with a Rate of a dollar you will then add the total value to the units column.