Paid Parental Leave

TonySmith
TonySmith Member Posts: 29 Reckoner Reckoner
in Reckon Payroll

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

Best Answer

  • Rav
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 16,786 Reckon Community Manager Community Manager
    edited November 2023 Answer ✓

    Hi Jo

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


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    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.

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  • Carolyn_9716443
    Carolyn_9716443 Member Posts: 19 Reckoner Reckoner

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

  • Pia
    Pia Member Posts: 76 Reckoner Reckoner
    edited November 2023

    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
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 16,786 Reckon Community Manager Community Manager

    Hi @Pia

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    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
    Therese R Member Posts: 111 Reckon Star Reckon Star

    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
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 16,786 Reckon Community Manager Community Manager

    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
    Therese R Member Posts: 111 Reckon Star Reckon Star

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

  • Reeta
    Reeta Reckon Staff Posts: 200 Reckon Staff

    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
    Therese R Member Posts: 111 Reckon Star Reckon Star

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

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