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Activate leave pay on the payslip

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Summary

Learn how to activate leave pay in a wage company in Sage VIP Classic or Sage VIP Premier. This makes sure your employee's payslip includes payments for the leave periods.

Description

You must activate leave pay in the last work week before the employee goes on leave. This makes sure the payslip includes payments and deductions for the leave periods.

 

Resolution

To activate leave pay for an employee

  1. Acces your compamny from the Company Listing screen.
  2. From the Main Menu, go to Payroll, then select Payslip Screen.
  3. Choose the employee form the list, then select Continue.
  4. Select the LP button on the employee's payslip window.
  5. Enter the number of weeks or bi-weeks the employee will be on leave, for example, two.
  6. Select Close to return to the list of employees.
  7. Select Close to return to the Main Menu.

After you activate leave pay

  • A red message appears at the bottom of the payslip window. It shows the number of periods you activated leave pay for
  • The system multiplies deductions by the number of leave pay periods
  • The system finalises the tax calculation based on the total pay and the number of leave pay periods
  • Don't process anything else on the payslip after you've activated leave pay.

NOTE:

Each time you start a new period, the number of leave pay periods reduces by one.