Including Negative RDO Amounts in Superannuation Calculations

If you offer RDO benefits to employees, you must include the negative RDO calculation when calculating superannuation for the employees. Because employees are not paid for the time that is banked for RDO purposes when the time is banked, these earnings should not be included in superannuation calculations. To account for this, you must create a negative RDO DBA and include this DBA in the basis of calculation for any of the DBAs that are used to calculate superannuation.

When you set up the negative RDO DBA, use these guidelines:

  • The RDO accrual and the negative RDO DBA must be set up with DBA codes that are lower than all of the other DBAs that must include RDO calculations in their basis of calculation.

  • The RDO accrual and the negative RDO DBA should be consecutive DBA codes, with the RDO accrual having the lower of the two codes.

    For example, you might assign DBA code 1690 to the RDO accrual and 1691 to the negative RDO DBA.

  • The RDO accrual DBA must be used as the basis of calculation for the negative RDO DBA.

  • You must add the negative RDO DBA to the basis of calculation for any DBAs that are used to calculate superannuation.

Before you create a negative accrual for negative RDO amounts, you must first set up the RDO accrual DBA.