Understanding Absence and Termination Rules

Global Payroll for New Zealand delivers predefined rules for processing absence payments, such as annual leave, sick leave, unpaid leave, long service leave, and ACC leave. Rules are also delivered to calculate absence entitlements on termination, including the payment of public holidays that occur soon after an employee is terminated.

PeopleSoft designed these rules in accordance with the New Zealand Holiday Pay Act. The system can manage the calculation of rolling averages for leave payments. You can easily modify many of these rules to reflect absence and termination policies that are specific to your organization or to labor agreements with your employees.

We have provided eight absence entitlement elements and eight absence take elements to demonstrate how Global Payroll can process typical leave requirements in New Zealand.