Leave Liability Report vs. Leave Loading

Thomas_7040795

I am confused!

During the last pay run, RAH reminded my that the Leave Loading will only calculated correctly if the Leave Loading item is added underneath the position of Hourly Pay. - I did that and it worked. Great!

But now my Leave Liability Report calculates the liabilities based on the Leave Loading rate and no longer the Hourly Rate. When reading why this is the case, I find that it is because the Hourly Rate needs to be at the bottom of the Payroll items/Earings Item Names.

I assume that I am getting something wrong. Because that would mean I can only have one of the two working properly at any given time.

Can somebody please assist me in what I need to do to get both the Leave Loading and the Leave Liability Report correct without the need to rearrange the sequence of the 'Earings Item Names' ?

Thanks a lot!

Acctd4

I think you’re confusing your Holiday Pay/Annual Leave hourly rate with Leave Loading 🤔

The Leave Loading Payroll Item is directly linked to the use of the Holiday Pay-type (eg Annual Leave) hourly (or salary) Payroll Item. (In other words if you select/enter the Leave Loading Payroll Item without also having the Holiday Pay Item, it won’t calculate anything)

The leave loading rate isn’t hourly, it’s a flat 17.5% of this (AL/Holiday Pay) gross amount total.

Thomas_7040795

Thanks Shaz for coming to my help again 😊.

In fact the Leave Loading is not the issue. Everything calculated and added up correctly. The problem occurred after adding Leave Loading as a new Earning Item. Afterwards the Leave Liability Report is using the data/rate of the Leave Loading to calculated the Leave Liabilities, which obviously results in a wrong report.

The confusion on my side occurs because I understand that in order for the Leave Loading to calculate correctly the Leave Loading Earning Item needs to be inserted right after the Hourly Pay Earning Item. So, that results in Leave Loading to be the last item on the list of the Earning Items. - However for the Leave Liability Report to calculate correctly I read that the Hourly Rate must be the last item on the Earning list. But after adding Leave Loading to the Earning Items, Leave Loading is now the last items and the Leave Liability Report is calculated based on the rate of the Leave Loading instead of the Hourly Rate.

I am not sure whether I was able to explain this apparent 'one excludes the other' situation, which I believe cannot be.

Thanks

Thomas

Acctd4

This issue is specific to this particular report & has come up a few times - it doesn’t occur consistently nor for everyone so my assumption is it’s likely difficult for Reckon to determine the specifics to reproduce it for fixing 😩

Whilst not ideal, if you really want to utilise this report & you’re experiencing this issue, my suggestion for workaround is to export the report to Excel & manually edit it there 😬

Thomas_7040795

Thanks Shaz,

I guess that's most likely the easiest and best workaround to this issue, because you are right, it does not happen the first time.