Troubleshooting FAQs for Leave Pay

Sage VIP Classic, Sage VIP Premier, and Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional: View the most frequently asked questions on leave pay.

• What is Leave Pay? Click here for more information

 

• What is the difference between Leave Pay activation in a Weekly company vs a Bi-Weekly company? Click here for more information

 

• How do I know if I should activate Normal Leave Pay or Late Leave Pay? Click here to read more

 

• Will the other fixed earnings automatically be multiplied by the number of weeks employees will be on leave? Fixed earnings are not automatically multiplied by the number of Leave Pay periods activated and must be setup as well

How do I activate this functionality?

 

• If I have not used the Leave Pay function before and would like to setup the Leave Pay earning line, how do I do this? Click here for more information.

 

• Deductions that are defined as Type of Deduction ‘Pension’ and ‘Provident’, do not automatically multiply by the specified number of Leave periods. The Methods of Calculation for Pension or Provident Fund must be adjusted to include the Leave Pay periods or the Leave Pay earning. Click here for more information

 

• If we are using the Leave Pay function, what do we do when employees come back early from leave and now the payslips are frozen? Click here for more information

 

• I usually make use of Separate Payslips during December. How do I setup a leave pay separate payslip? Click here for more information

 

• The activation of Leave Pay does not necessarily update the leave taken field on the employees leave days screen. A leave transaction might have to be processed for this. Click here for more information on how leave module users can setup for the automatic updating of leave transactions when leave pay is paid

 

• I noticed that when activating leave pay, the UIF Submit report values differ to the UIF values on the EMP201 report. Why does this not balance? Click here for more information