Paid Parental Leave

TonySmith

Hi I am trying to set up a paid parental leave item on the new reckon 1 payroll. I found a tutorial for the old payroll but not for the new. The old tutorial said to set it up as salary and enter the yearly salary based on the paid parental leave amount, in the new system it does not allow you to do that and in the employee card it calculates on the employees current rate.

Also I have had this a few times when you edit the pay on an employee it won't let you save and exit as it wants you to select a payee but there is nothing to choose from and so I can't save any of my changes.

Please could you tell me how to set up the paid parental leave and to get past this payee information require.

Thanks

Jo

Rav

Hi Jo

Paid Parental Leave is categorised as an 'Other' leave type in Reckon Payroll.

Go to Settings ➡️ Pay Items ➡️ Create Pay item ➡️ Leave, you'll be able to setup a new leave item.

Select Other from the leave type dropdown list and then Paid Parental Leave from the Leave sub-type field.

Setup the item as per your requirements and save to create it.

Once its created, go to the employee profile who is eligible for it and then add it to to their profile in the Leave section by clicking Add Leave Entitlement. Select the Paid Parental Leave item you've just created from the list to add to the employee. Once you've done that, you'll be able to add it in a pay run for that specific employee.

Carolyn_9716443

Is there a step by step guide like the above for Reckon Accounts Hosted?

Pia

Hi Rav

My Paid Parental Leave in Reckon Payroll was already setup under Salaries and Wages as a Variable Item and it wont allow me to change it over to other leave. Can you please let me know how to fix.

Thanks

Rav

Hi @Pia

The type of an item can't be changed once its created. What I'd recommend you do is disable the existing one you have (example of the left) and then create a new item under the correct type.

Therese R

I have the same Paid Parental leave item in our system as above. We will be having 2 employees taking our own company based Parental leave over the next few months. Is the item in Reckon Payroll the Govt funded Paid Parental leave? Neither of our employees are accessing the Govt Paid Parental leave scheme at this time.

We provide one week of parental leave on top of their other statutory leave. Should I make a new item called Parental leave that we pay our employees so that it is differentiated from the Paid Parental leave?

Rav

Hi @Therese R

The item in Reckon Payroll is a generic one that can be used for the purposes of PPL. You can choose to use this existing item or create your own if its better suited for your specific case/requirements.

Creating your own item might be helpful just for differentiation as well.

Therese R

Thanks Rav - I think that might be the way to go.

Reeta

Hi @Therese R ,

If you need any further information regarding the other leave items in Reckon Payroll, you can find more details in the link provided below.

https://help.reckon.com/article/25mjp55ak5-other-leave-single-touch-payroll-phase-2

Hope this will be helpful !!

Kind regards,

Reeta

Therese R

Thankyou @Reeta - I will look at that as well.

Therese R

Hi Rav and @Reeta

I have set up the new Paid Parental Leave - Company following the above instructions. Just noticed that Super wasn't calculated when I did the payrun.

Went back to the payroll item set up and there is no provision to add super to it.

See attached screen shots of the payrun as well as the payroll item set up.

Any suggestions how to get around this please?

Parental leave set up.pdf

Reeta

Hi @Therese R ,

Thank you for letting me know.

I will further investigate the issue and follow up with you shortly.

Regards,

Reeta

Reeta

@Therese R ,

Could you please confirm whether the "Include paid parental leave" calculation is selected under your superannuation super guarantee pay item, as displayed in the image below:

Regards,

Reeta

Therese R

Hi Rav

Yes - it does now - thanks for the tip.

I will try to do the pay again and see if it calculates.

Rav

Hi Rav

Yes - it does now - thanks for the tip.

Would love to take the credit but that was all @Reeta 😉😄

Therese R

Oooopssss Sorry @Reeta 🤭🤭thankyou very much

Thank you both. I have now updated the pay and it works and have relodged it with ATO. ☺️

Reeta

@Therese R,

All good, Therese. 😊

Good to hear that it's working. Happy to help!!

Regards,

Reeta