WORKING ON A PUBLIC HOLIDAY

JEN

Hi Team,

I have a couple of employees that worked on the public holiday and I was wondering how best to set them up in pay items category.

I have added a 2.5 base rate pay item under normal hours but is this doesn't seem right. I think I should create a 2.5 base rate Public Holiday worked pay item.

Thank you.

Jason_Z

Hi @JEN

If you don’t already have one, I’d recommend creating a new pay item specifically for public holidays and setting the rate multiplier to suit your needs.

JEN

https://community.reckon.com/discussion/comment/20654065#Comment_20654065

Hi Jason.

That's what I was thinking and just amended my message to reflect this. Would it be classed as overtime pay item or OTE?

Thank you.

JEN

https://community.reckon.com/discussion/comment/20654065#Comment_20654065

Hi Jason,

Sorry I just need to know one more thing. Is it OTE or Overtime pay item?

Thank you.

Jason_Z

Hi @JEN

I'm not an accountant so I'm not 100% sure, but here's a general breakdown that might help:

• Ordinary time earnings (OTE): Amounts paid to employees for their ordinary hours of work that are used to calculate the employers super guarantee contribution.
• Overtime: Amounts paid to employees for hours worked over and above their ordinary hours of work.

Since it's not over their standard hours, I don’t think it would be considered overtime.

Hope that helps!

JEN

https://community.reckon.com/discussion/comment/20654068#Comment_20654068

Hi Jason,

They actually worked over the OTE so part of their pay would be classed as overtime .

Thank you so much for your help and I will have to work out how to split their pay.

JEN

Hi Team,

I have just noticed that one of the two employees tax didn't calculate properly. They were undertaxed for some reason.

This employee does pay salary sacrifice and I am not sure if this has anything to do with it? I had to manually change the tax according to what the ATO tax table calculation is.

Could someone please get back to me about this.

Thank you.